September 16, 2008 by Blast Magazine Newsroom
Filed under Celebs, Computers, Entertainment, The Magazine
Research from security firm McAfee shows that some celebrities are just dangerous to Google and search for around the web because of the litany of fake websites out there that try to infect your computer with viruses and malicious code as you innocently seek out wallpaper and screensavers of your favs.
Brad Pitt leads the pack [...]
May 6, 2008 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Computers, Science and Technology
McAfee Avert Labs reported Tuesday the most significant malware outbreak in three years with more than 500,000 detections of a Trojan horse they’re calling “Downloader-UA.h,” which is spreading by masquerading as a media file.
“The malicious MP3 music or MPEG video files have appeared on popular file-sharing services such as Limewire and eDonkey,” Avert Labs said [...]
February 22, 2008 by Torrey Meeks
Filed under Computers, Science and Technology
Take a seven dollar can of compressed air from any office supply store. Flip it over, and spray its liquid nitrogen on a computer’s DRAM, or digital random access memory. Reboot the computer, or even extract the DRAM chip and clone it, then run a few relatively simple programs. Nothing that would defeat an intermediate [...]


