Yesterday was World Backup Day. Every March 31st has been declared to be World Backup Day and serve as a reminder to everybody to backup their data. The website behind the holiday offers winnable prizes, discount offers, tips on how to backup and more. … [Read more...]
Archives for 2013
Intel mimics Game of Thrones to tease 4th Gen Intel Core
Using Twitter, Intel teased the 4th generation of the Intel Core processors were coming this Summer. In a way that imitated the NY Times ad for Game of Thrones, the Intel ad tells us to hold on until this Summer. Ivy Bridge is the code name for the current 3rd generation CPU microarchitecture and it will be succeeded by code name Haswell. … [Read more...]
An inside look at an Intel Solid State Drive
Solid State Drives are one of the best upgrades to happen to PCs for a while. If you disagree, upgrade somebody's computer to use an SSD and then after two weeks try to take it back. There is no going back for the lower electricity usage, durability, and snappier response. Particularly when it comes to laptops which might get bumped around, could previously have a 5400 RPM … [Read more...]
McAfee Phinds Phishers are Pheasting [infographic]
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According to McAfee Labs, Spam is losing its appeal to cybercriminals. Cybercriminals made over $680 million in the first half of 2012 through phishing schemes. As a result, phishing sites increased by 70% between January and September 2012. McAfee created an infographic detailing some of this information and providing some suggestions on how to avoid being a victim to … [Read more...]
History of the term ‘hacker’
PBS Off Book covers the topic 'Can Hackers be Heroes?'. It mainly gets into the history of the term 'hacker' and its evolution to go through programmers to trespassers to makers. The video does a good job covering that topic but doesn't really answer their own question of whether hackers can be heroes. You can see the video embedded below. … [Read more...]