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Posted February 26, 2013, 11:19 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple, IT Security
Apple released iOS 6.1.2 one week ago to address, among other things, a flaw that allowed anyone to bypass the iPhone passcode lock screen and access select data on the device. But much to the dismay of Apple, yet another…
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Posted February 19, 2013, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple, Mobile Computing
Apple has released yet another iOS update, iOS 6.1.2, to address a few lingering issues still haunting some iOS 6.1 and 6.1.1 users. The iterative update includes fixes an Exchange calendar bug, which in turn also solves the greatly decreased…
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Posted January 29, 2013, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web
Several security vulnerabilities found within common UPnP implementations have prompted experts at Rapid 7 to recommend the public disable UPnP entirely. Research spanning several months in 2012 revealed that over 2 percent -- or about 50 million -- of all…
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Posted October 17, 2012, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, Industry News
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued another industrial control warning (pdf) regarding critical vulnerabilities found across a number of solar panel systems. Affected systems can be easily exploited using "proof of concept" code developed by security researchers Roberto Paleari…
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Posted August 16, 2012, 3:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Software
With the Windows 8 RTM now available through official avenues, AMD has updated its display drivers to offer the first unified Catalyst release for Microsoft's last three operating systems. Radeon users running Windows 8 will benefit from support for DirectX…
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Posted July 26, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple, Software
To the dismay of some users, Power Nap -- Apple's whimsically named, sleep-like power state which quietly polls for updates -- was curiously absent from Mountain Lion's official release yesterday. Today though, the company rolled out an SMC update which adds…
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Posted May 8, 2012, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
OCZ has announced a new firmware update that boosts performance of fourth-generation Vertex drives by up to 110% in certain situations. The update (v1.4RC) increases 128KB sequential reads from 535MB/s to 550MB/s on 128GB, 256GB and 512GB Vertex 4s, while…
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Posted March 28, 2012, 1:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Software
OCZ has released a new firmware update for its range of SSDs running Indilinx Barefoot controllers and 34 nm NAND flash. Specifically, Vertex, Agility and Solid2 drives made after December 2009. The Arowana Flash Translation Layer (FTL) firmware update brings…
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Posted November 29, 2011, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, Hardware
Researchers from Columbia University have demonstrated a security flaw found in, but perhaps not limited to, HP printers which can actually lead to fires. The exploit allows hackers to reprogram printers with custom firmware, giving the attacker full control of…
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Posted October 18, 2011, 10:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
SandForce and OCZ Technology have released a firmware update for SF-2000 series solid state drives that addresses a nagging blue screen of death and disconnect bug that has plagued drives for months. OCZ is one of many vendors that use…
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Posted June 29, 2011, 6:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in TechSpot, Software
For most users a good wireless router is the one that you set up in a few easy steps and forget about it as long as it gets you online. But beyond the stock features that came with your router, there are many things that the hardware you bought might be capable of.

Luckily for you, people have been working on ways to get the fancy stuff running on your average $60-$100 device. After a relatively simple upgrade to a free third-party firmware, you'll be able boost your wireless signal, prioritize what programs get your precious bandwidth, and do lots of other stuff usually reserved for pro-grade wireless routers.
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