The Brass Monkey

Here is how it works. People will get e-mails that look similar to those from official sources urging them to change their user name and password for security reasons. They’ll be redirected to a fake website. This is known as Phishing. Thousands of dollars have been stolen in this latest phishing scam targeting iTunes/Paypal users. [...]

Sony is saying bye bye to the 3.5 inch floppy disk. The last manufacturer of the floppy disk is stopping production in Japan in 2011. Most other floppy disk manufacturers had long since pulled out of the market, and Sony itself has already ceased sales to most of its overseas markets. The writing has been [...]

McAfee servers today pushed out a regular update (DAT 5958) that falsely identified the Windows XP file svchost.exe as a being infected with the virus Wecorl.a. This huge pain in the butt effected Enterprise customers. The result was after the update was applied tens of thousands computers in effect crashed. To make matters worse trying [...]

The GeForce GTX 480 lists for around 500 bucks US and is Nividia´s fastest single card offering. The chip is based on Nvidia´s Next-Gen Fermi Architecture If you have the bucks for this big bad boy and are a hard core gamer perhaps the 500 dollar price tag is worth it. The card delivers around [...]