Hooray! While Google is certainly guilty of not always listening to the user base of their various products… many of you former GReader users are hearing that loud and clear… in this instance I think that Google was listening and … Continue reading →
Wordpress is a very popular platform for *MANY* blogs on the Internet. This website and blog (SKoenemann.com) is actually based on WordPress. Over the last week or so, security firms and network hosting companies have seen a huge increase in … Continue reading →
There were two major announcements this week concerning the development of new “browser engines”; the software at the heart of Web browsers responsible for “rendering” or displaying the actual content of Web pages. Both of these announcements, the first by … Continue reading →
Today Mozilla will release the newest version of its flagship browser, Firefox. Mozilla switched to an accelerated development cycle in 2011, which sees a new major version of Firefox released approximately every 6 weeks. The full development cycle for any one … Continue reading →
While the principles and concepts of the UEFI Secure boot process are good ones,… it does, after all, help prevent rootkits and “bootkits” from compromising a system… allowing Microsoft to control many of the operational aspects concerning how device/PC vendors … Continue reading →
Having only been released a couple of months ago, I think that the jury is still out on the future viability of Microsoft’s newest desktop/tablet operating system, Windows 8. As with any new operating system release from Microsoft, this new … Continue reading →
About a month ago, Microsoft released a new version of their Internet Explorer browser, IE10, along with Windows 8. Prior to today, you have to install or upgrade to Windows 8 to get this newer, faster, standards-based browser from the … Continue reading →
Yesterday Adobe announced that it will pair all future updates for its Flash Player software with Microsoft’s “Patch Tuesday” schedule. This does not mean that Microsoft will distribute/install these updates as a part of its Patch Tuesday updates, but it … Continue reading →