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You may not know it, but right now you could be under attack. As you read this, your computer could be being bombarded by hacking attempts from individuals who want to break into your personal files and plunder what they find there. These attacks could potentially damage your computer and leave you facing a virus, or worse they could result in your personal details being stolen and used to empty your bank account or just send you tons of junk mail. You might not be aware of it again, but your computer is probably meanwhile trying to defend itself against such attacks and stoically protect you and your private data from theft. An arms race is going on at all times between the two with you happily browsing away on Facebook, but if you want to turn the tides in your computer's  favor  then it's time to get involved. And successfully defending your computer means knowing how the bad guys operate and how to counteract their every move. Read on to get inside the minds of thos...

It’s a scenario all programmers are familiar with: you are coding alone, only to have something go awry and no one to ask for help.  Codementor  wants to prevent developers from going insane by providing an open marketplace where they can ask experts for one-on-one programming and design help. The site just launched in private beta and the first 100 TechCrunch readers to sign up through  this link  will receive a $10 credit. Founder Weiting Liu says the goal of Codementor’s platform, which features code/screen sharing, video and text chat, is to replicate the reassuring feeling of having an experienced programmer beside you. “We are working hard to bridge the gap between the experience of asking public questions on an Internet forum and having a real mentor sit right beside you,” says Liu. The site currently has 300 mentors based in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Liu says that urgent questions can be answered within two hours, while other queries will get a response with...