The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently held a webinar on how to avoid the pitfalls of e-waste recycling. The online meeting, hosted by Chris Newman from EPA Region 5, laid out some best practices for selecting the right recycler for eWaste (eCycling). The reasons for eCycling are simple: to protect your data, and [...]
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Engineering team is reporting a vulnerability involving VBScript and Windows Help files. In Microsoft Security Advisory 981169, the MSRC says that hitting the F1 Help key can activate a vulnerability in VBScript enabling Remote Code Execution. The new Microsoft threat involves any version of Internet Explorer on Windows 2000 [...]
Jim Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky, is single-handedly blocking Senate action needed to prevent an estimated 1.2 million American workers from prematurely losing their unemployment benefits next month.
As Democratic senators asked again and again for unanimous consent for a vote on a 30-day extension Thursday night, Bunning refused to go along.
According to [...]
Trend Micro, in a December 2009 report, The Future of Threats and Threat Technologies: How the Landscape Is Changing (PDF) predicts that changes to the Internet infrastructure will widen the playing field for cybercriminals. One of the changes Trend Micro predicts it the IPv6 Malware Experimentation Stage. The anti-virus firm points out that many weaknesses [...]
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told us in September 2009 that the recession was “very likely over.” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told CBS News on 01-30-10 “The Great Recession is over.” UPS CEO Scott Davis told the Atlanta Constitution Journal on 02-03-10 that the recession is over. So to celebrate UPS is [...]