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PayPal security warning email with malware

PayPal security warning email with malware There is a new wave of emails pretending to come from Paypal having a ZIP archive attached. The email says that your PayPal account have been accessed by a third party and, in order to protected your account, PayPal has been locked.The user is invited to review the report […]

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Goodbye Twitterfeed.com, Hello HootSuite.com (updated)

Until now, I used Twitterfeed.com to publish several RSS Feeds to Ping.fm and from there to several social media networks like Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Yahoo and Flickr. For quite some time now, TwitterFeed is no longer compatible with Ping.fm. I’ve been quite patient and supportive with both Ping.fm and Twitterfeed.com . I even created bugs […]

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When the whales fly (or Twitter hiccups)

From time to time, the users of Twitter are unable to login on the official website. Sometimes the screen below can be seen, sometimes just a timeout error. Interesting enough, after you refresh a couple of times, you are able to do whatever you were trying to do, and then never get this error until […]

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Deadlock-Proof Your Code: Part 1 & 2

In today’s world of multicore computing, it’s important to make sure that your multithreaded applications scale. A longstanding approach for making the most of multiple processors is to arrange for different resources to be protected by different synchronization objects, or locks. A drawback of this approach is that a bug in your threading model can […]

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The wrong way of being in the news

“70 Romanian Phishers & Fraudsters Arrested On March 4th, FBI Director Robert Mueller was given a speech on Cybercrime to the RSA conference where he mentioned that: And we have worked with the Romanian National Police to arrest more than 100 Romanian nationals in the past 18 months. Four years ago, several American companies threatened […]

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What’s New in Visual C++ 2010

What’s New in Visual C++ 2010 This topic introduces new and enhanced Visual C++ features in Visual Studio 2010. Amazon: Bestsellers Electronics and Photo Visual C++ Projects and the Build System MSBuild Visual C++ solutions and projects are now built by using MSBuild, which replaces VCBUILD.exe. MSBuild is the same flexible, extensible, XML-based build tool […]

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2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

The 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is a list of the most widespread and critical programming errors that can lead to serious software vulnerabilities. They are often easy to find, and easy to exploit. They are dangerous because they will frequently allow attackers to completely take over the software, steal data, or […]

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Philips NetTV and FritzBox 72xx

I recently bought a new LCD TV from Philips : The 47″ PFL8404H/12 with NetTV. Philips 47 PFL 8404 H 119,4 cm (47 Zoll) Full-HD Ambilight LCD-Fernseher mit integriertem DVB-T / DVB-C Tuner schwarz Actually, I chose this TV because of two features it has: 1. The display : Full HD, 47″ , non reflective […]