It’s very light as well, at just three pounds (1.8kg) and just 18.8 millimeters thick at its thickest point, which is no doubt helped by liberal usage of the exceptionally sought after material, carbon fiber, one of only a few materials that manages the feat of simultaneously being thin, super lightweight and incredibly strong.

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After the last time I accidentally clicked this stupid button when I just wanted to enter sleep mode, I decided to look for a solution.

Update: Windows 7 does the same thing to my Shutdown button, and this same registry hack fixes the problem.

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The most recent “ransomware” was detected by abuse.ch and uses a drive-by exploit kit called “Blackhole.” This cheap malware can be purchased via underground forums and infects systems through one or more security vulnerabilities in a web browser or plug-in like Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader or Java.

Once infected, the target system becomes locked and users are presented with a bogus region-specific message about why the system is locked and how they can regain control. The ransomware is currently targeting systems in Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK.

The UK variety tells the user that illegally downloaded music has been detected on their machine and attempts to incite fear by highlighting penalties that could result from such material. In this example, users are urged to use PaySafe to transfer £50 ($80) to unlock the computer.

Once complete, the system is “unlocked” and unsuspecting users are none the wiser. But in addition to the ransom, this kit installs another piece of malware called Aldi Bot that is used to steal login credentials as well as initiate DDoS attacks.

The malware author is suspected to be of Russian descent since all of the domain names point to a Russian web provider.

As always, the best defense against drive-by attacks is to keep your browser, plug-ins and anti-virus protection up to date.

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Samsung is now aiming to grab a significant piece of that success by building its own low-cost Android tablet. The catch is that Samsung’s new entry, the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, looks anything but low-cost. In fact, it features a much better spec sheet than the Kindle Fire, and uses the same streamlined body design as its more expensive brethren.

With a price of $249.99 for the Wi-Fi-only model, the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 is an instant best buy. And when you consider that it is one of the few devices on the market to offer Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as its operating system, it’s even more of a steal.

Hardware

From a hardware perspective, the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 looks much like any other recent Samsung tablet. This particular model features a black front with a titanium silver rear cover, and it feels very nice in your hands. There’s a lot to be said for the 7-inch tablet form factor.

The 7-inch TFT display on the Tab 2 7.0 offers users 1024 x 600 pixels of resolution. The colors it generates are very bright, and the display’s viewing angle is surprisingly good for such an inexpensive device.

Dual speakers flank the 30-pin Samsung connector that is found on the bottom of the tablet (when held in portrait mode). The volume and power keys are on the upper right edge of the tablet, and a 3.5mm headphone jack can be found up top. The 3.5mm jack also supports a line-in function.

The Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 measures up at 193mm x 122mm x 10.4mm (7.6in x 4.8in x .41in), which makes it a bit thinner than Amazon’s Kindle Fire, though its tapered design makes it feel even thinner than it really is. It weighs a perfectly fine 345g (12.2oz), making it a device that you can hold for hours on end without fatigue.

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Experts from the UK Health and Protection Agency mulled over data found across hundreds of studies regarding cell phone usage and health problems. What were the results of this meta-study said to be the largest of its kind? Researchers were unable to derive any links between mobile phones and risk of cancer or infertility.

Note, that’s not to say scientists managed to disprove links between health problems and cell phones, rather, it simply could not be proven.

As with all things biological, especially over long periods of time, it is difficult to separate correlation from causality. Research which aims to answer the big question is not done in a vacuum. Needless to say, we’re inundated by so many things in all facets of everyday life that even the best research cannot always be absolutely definitive. Rather, scientists rely on a consensus of studies and when there are a preponderance of outcomes, the broader community can be relatively assured of the results.

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Although there are many more options out there, some serving specific niches, we’ve hand-picked what arguably are the most high-profile and consumer-friendly cloud storage services currently out. We took them for a spin to see how well they stack against each other, first with a brief overview on the table below and later in better detail, with impressions and commentary to give you a better idea of which one may fit your needs best.

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Speaking exclusively to CBR at Info Security 2012 in London, Kaspersky said that the recent Flashback malware attacks are likely just the start of a new wave of attacks aimed at Macs as the platform becomes more popular. He has been saying for years that from a security point, there is no difference between Mac and Windows.

He goes on to say that his company has been seeing more and more Mac malware and with the recent outbreaks, it’s just a matter of time and market share. Cyber criminals have learned from the outbreak and will use that knowledge in future attacks. The bad guys will still primarily target PCs since they outsell Macs by a large margin but the days of not having to worry about a security threat on the Apple OS are numbered.

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In late 2010, popular blogs Gawker and Gizmodo were hacked and their databases were posted online. In 2011 there was another security breach that affected millions of users.

When news broke of the Gawker attack, I searched the actual database that was posted online, and sure enough, there was my email and my favorite password at the time, listed in plain text for the entire Internet to see.

I did some common password searches, just out of curiosity. You’d be surprised at the number of people who use “password”, or even “ABCDE” or “1234” as their password. It was staggering, to say the least. Now, I know, these were probably mostly throwaway passwords, right? I really hope so.

Next, I set about changing my own passwords at every site I could think of. Before long I had set a new password for my accounts after a lot of crossed fingers that I still had access to my email account, but I was still using the same basic passwords almost everywhere because I wanted to remember them. I knew I wasn’t supposed to, but I did it anyway, because I was lazy–there, I said it!

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After some sleuthing, Mr. Watt, who has a background in developing Web advertising tools, realized that the quirk was not confined to his site. The hotel’s Internet service was secretly injecting lines of code into every page he visited, code that could allow it to insert ads into any Web page without the knowledge of the site visitor or the page’s creator. (He did not actually see any such ads.)

Mr. Watt posted about the discovery on his blog, and that soon spawned a conversation on Hacker News, a discussion site for tech topics, about the ethics of this technique. One commenter described it as “icky,” and another asked, “Why aren’t they putting ads in my pillow?”

Mr. Watt had strong feelings about it himself. He said in an interview that he had never seen an Internet provider modifying Web pages that a person visits. “Imagine the U.S.P.S., or FedEx, for that matter, opening your Amazon boxes and injecting ads into the packages,” Mr. Watt said.

A test of the Courtyard Marriott’s wireless network on Friday verified Mr. Watt’s claims. The code was embedded in the pages of several Web sites visited, including Reddit, GigaOM and TechMeme.

The lines of code include references to “rxg,” which stands for Revenue eXtraction Gateway, a service aimed at generating money from Internet access points. On its Web site, a company called RG Nets, which makes Revenue eXtraction Gateway, explains that its system rewrites every Web page on the fly so that it can include a banner ad. “As you can see, the pervasive nature of the advertising banner on all Web pages guarantees banner advertising impression,” a narrator says in the video.

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