In a recent post, AppAppeal ranked the most popular URL shorteners. The top five includes TinyURL, Goo.gl, Bit.ly, Ow.ly and is.gd. Unfortunately, these helpful services are also used to hide a large number of malicious URLs. This result has made me want to learn more about malicious links that may be hidden behind these shortcuts.For […]
This past weekend, various postgraduate students in France ended their academic year by making final modifications in their theses.On Sunday, I assisted some of them. While browsing the Internet for some last-minute data, they suffered the fright of their lives: the sudden closing of their Microsoft Word software-without prompting to save their data-no more Internet […]
Apple’s latest iOS update is out. The new version bumps iOS5 up to 5.0.1, and is Apple’s first OTA update. OTA stands for “over-the-air”, and means that you can download and apply the update directly from your iDevice. You no longer need to download the entire firmware file to your computer – including yet another […]
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