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For a very limited time and while supplies last you can order the Xbox 360 Live 12 Month Gold Card plus 1 Month Bonus for as low as $38.99 after 11.00 instant savings.
With this Xbox 360 Live Gold Card you’ll get a year’s access to Xbox Live plus 1 extra bonus month. Xbox live is [...]

Despite my best efforts to have current backups of my MySQL databases, I’m going through some data loss hell thanks to the ineptitude of my Web host.
Why is it so many people have problems with MySQL hosting and data loss? It seems like it plagues every single Web Host and everyone who has Web sites [...]

Only 30% of people that bought the Zune like it, reports MacWorld.
Microsoft recently confirmed it has sold just over a million Zunes - but recent research says most Zune owners rue the day they ever dipped into their pocket to pick one up, with 70 per cent of Zune owners planning to ditch the device [...]

Exploit code for a vulnerability that uses Microsoft Internet Explorer to send malicious input to the Trillian instant messenger client is circulating.
The public exploit code demonstrates a vulnerability in the AIM URI handler. For this vulnerability, an attacker must trick a user who has the Trillian Instant Messaging client and possibly others installed to [...]

PCPro has reported that BitDefender has learned that tens of thousands of Yahoo and Hotmail users accounts have been hijacked to send spam messages.
The malware not only generates new webmail accounts automatically but has also found a way around the anti-spam CAPTCHA system, which requires people to enter the letters depicted in an image.
The trojan [...]

There is a new zero day exploit for Internet Explorer circulating but it requires that you have previously installed Firefox for it to work on a system.
The exploit code demonstrates the vulnerability using the Mozilla Firefox firefoxurl:// URL protocol. To trigger this vulnerability, an attacker must persuade a user who has previously installed Firefox or [...]

Microsoft has posted their July Security Bulletin Advance Notification. July will contain six updates, with three marked at the maximum security of Critical.
The Critical patches are for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office/Microsoft Excel and .Net Framework. Two Important updates for Microsoft Office Publisher and Windows XP Professional and a Moderate update for Microsoft Windows Vista will [...]

An exploit in Microsoft Windows Update is allowing malicious hackers to use it to download additional viruses and trojan components on a computer that has already been infected.
The service being used bypasses firewalls and other security checks allowing the hacker to download and possibly even install rootkits and keyloggers without detection.
It has been reported that [...]

eWeek’s David Morgenstern had an interesting take on the state of the security of the Windows OS and Mac OS and why the Mac OS has many less security flaws than windows. He even went as far to say, “The Mac platform is more secure than Windows and will continue to be so.”
As part of [...]

Is it possible that my friend Chris Pirillo is finally admitting to himself that a move to Apple shouldn’t be out of the question?
Chris has been ranting about his problems with Vistafor weeks now. He has also been complaining about the state of Windows programs on a daily basis. But he resists whenever I or [...]