• IE6 Countdown–Migrate to IE8 (or IE9)

    10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye. We all know that Internet Explorer 6 is outdated and that you should move away...
  • Upgrading from Windows 1 to Windows 7

    You might have seen this experiment but it is absolutely astonishing. A guy called Andy from Scotland tested the upgrade path from Windows 1 through to Windows 7. 10 minutes worth investing if you want to get some nostalgic feelings: Here is the original...
  • 10 Tough Botnet Questions

    Botnets are one of the toughest problems in the world of Cybercrime today. At least, this is what we think… ENISA just published an interesting paper called Botnets: 10 Tough Questions , which raise questions about e.g. the size of botnets or better the...
  • Is Remote-Application-Removal Acceptable?

    I just read this article on Google pulling 50 applications from their Android marketplace ( Google uses remote delete to remove Android apps from smartphones – Update ). A very good decision as these apps leverage an exploit to access user data. However...
  • Fraud via Phone on the Raise

    FTC released their Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book for January – December 2010 . The interesting and scary thing is that fraud via phone is on the raise. We get more and more complaints by customers as well, telling us that they got a call from “Microsoft...