Archive for March 26th, 2010

Installing Windows 7 on Virtual PC 2007

Friday, March 26th, 2010
Installing Windows 7 on Virtual PC 2007

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/26/installing-windows-7-on-virtual-pc-2007.aspx'; We have not updated Virtual PC 2007 to add support for running Windows 7 as a guest operating system at this point in time.  However, this is possible to do – with two important caveats: You really need to have hardware virtualization support to get decent performance ... »

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Help The Homeless, Feed the Phishers?

Friday, March 26th, 2010
Help The Homeless, Feed the Phishers?

Well, this is unfortunate. In the UK, we have something called “The Big Issue”, which is a magazine designed to help the homeless get back into society via a legitimate income. It sells around 300,000 copies a week and is listed as the third-favour... »

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Site carries uncensored Chinese opinion on Google

Friday, March 26th, 2010
Site carries uncensored Chinese opinion on Google

Cracks in the Great Firewall of ChinaSlashdot.org had a brief story this morning about pro-Google comments of Chinese Web users that were carried on the ChinaSMACK web site.ChinaSMACK was registered in June 2008 by a California-based proxy service and ... »

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Fake updates install backdoors

Friday, March 26th, 2010
Fake updates install backdoors

Our good friends at Hanoi, Viet Nam, -based security firm Bkis have written about an interesting malcode lure: Trojans masquerading as updates for popular applications such as Adobe, Java or Windows.The fake updates are distributed with icons of the ap... »

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Social media is exposure for password guessing

Friday, March 26th, 2010
Social media is exposure for password guessing

The Inquirer security news site is reporting that the 25-year-old arrested by French police for hacking a Twitter data base and accessing U.S. President Barak Obama’s account guessed the admin’s password.The unemployed man, who went by the handle »

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