Last week the PlayStation network was breached again–over 93,000 US and European accounts were accessed illegally. It’s yet another reminder that we should all be using strong and varied passwords. Read on for a refresher.
Earlier this year we showed you how to recover when your email password is compromised–the tips in the guide apply any time you want to shore up your password security. You might also consider using a personal password algorithm. Finally, check out the Ask the Readers post on password tracking to see how your fellow readers keep their passwords unique and organized to see how your fellow readers keep their passwords unique and organized.
Sony Halts 93,000 Online Accounts After Unauthorized Access [via Tech Crunch]
Today Amazon revealed their in-house Android-based tablet, the Kindle Fire, as well as a host of changes to the Kindle lineup.
Popular presentation sharing web site SlideShare has abandoned flash and shifted entirely to HTML5–you can now view SlideShare on any app that has an HTML5 compliant web browser.
Have you ever been the victim of identity theft? Ever been hacked? Here’s the first in a series of critical information to help you arm yourself against the surprisingly frightening world of hackers, phishers, and cybercriminals.
Imagine you have a Windows PC with a single user account, and you just lost your password. Here’s how to enable the hidden Administrator account with nothing more than the install CD and some registry hacking magic so you can reset your password.
Google+ now offers easy circle sharing; if you’ve built up a collection of interesting writers, photographers, or other individuals you can readily share that collection with friends.
Delicious, best known as a cloud-based bookmarking tool, has a new face. Delicious Stacks is a fusion between bookmark sharing and micro blogging.
This week we have something a little different for you. While searching across the web we have found some great icon packs that just never quite fit into a larger theme. So we decided to gather them together to share with you in our first Grab Bag Icon Packs collection.
You might not have lost your Android phone or had it stolen, but if you want to prepare for that possibility, here’s how to setup your phone to respond and contact you with its location.
Once a week we round up some of the interesting questions you guys mail in, answer them, and share them with the greater readership. This week we’re looking at how to enable Aero in VirtualBox, figuring out how much overhead your RAID array will chew up, and RAW processing without Photoshop.
Despite the common notion that lots of data is beamed down from satellites the majority of global communications travel through a massive network of high speed cables. Check out this interactive map to see the cables that bind everything together.