Last Friday Mathew Honan, a tech reporter with Wired.com, experienced a hacking incident that perfectly illustrates the vulnerabilities we expose when we rely on cloud services, linked accounts, and — especially — use of one favorite master password for multiple accounts. There's another...
Dropbox, the popular cloud storage service, today contacted users and announced on its blog that a few of its users' accounts had been accessed via usernames and passwords stolen from other sites. In addition to helping the owners of the breached accounts secure their data, Dropbox has introduced...
You've heard a bit about it over the last few months, but if you watch or read any sort of news outlet, you'll hear a lot more about it in the future. It's the Apple versus Samsung patent battle, wherein Apple claims Samsung stole its intellectual property, mainly the designs of the iPhone and...
Here's a very timely set of tips on how to help your mobile gadgets beat the heat and survive at the beach. Among the tips, some should be pretty obvious; others less so: Don't leave that device in direct sunlight! Store it with an ice pack. Really. Read the article for instructions on...
Many business owners mistakenly believe they are under the radar of cyber criminals, thinking they are just too small to be worth the time. But that's absolutely wrong, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article, Cybercriminals Sniff Out Vulnerable Firms. The article tells the story of...
