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Sophos Labs:The State of Ransomware

A new paper (free, no registration) on the trends of recent ransomware.

Unchecky:Keeping Unwanted Software From Being Installed

The software the "unchecks" all the default boxes during software installs to prevent unintentional installs of "value added" software.

Google Glass 2.0

WSJ has a video of the newest Glass from Google.

Microsoft Storing User's Disk Encryption Keys "in the Cloud."

If you login with your Microsoft ID, and use disk encryption provided by Windows, then Microsoft is backing up your encryption key.

Google nukes AVG Chrome Plugin

AVG's "Web Tune Up" for Chrome introduces insecurities and has been disabled by Google.  This plugin is installed by default when a user installs AVG anti virus.  The plugin has been updated.

Flash Update

Adobe has released a new patch for Flash.  Update if you use it, get rid of it if you do not.