Today's Cyanide & Happiness comic provides a good example of choosing bad security questions. Using information that others know or can easily find out is providing a very insecure passage into your accounts. The same precautions you take toward choosing a secure password should be used toward answering your security questions. If the provided questions like "Mother's … [Read more...]
Virtualization for Small and Medium Businesses [infographic]
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Symantec has produced an infographic on the topic of virtualization by SMBs. It covers what drives virtualization adoption, what prevents it from being taken further, and issues surrounding supporting those small and medium businesses need when incorporating virtualization into their environment. View the PDF from Symantec. … [Read more...]
Trailer for CYBERGEDDON, from the creator of CSI
Anthony Zuiker's next project Cyberggedon just released its first trailer, embedded after the jump. The series is a collaboration between Zuiker and Symantec's Norton. The video will roll out in a series of installments through Yahoo! Media. It debuts September 25th. … [Read more...]
Breaking iMacs in public
Dropping an iMac in public gets quite a reaction, apparently. Is it because the public is in love with all things Apple or do they just know how pricey an iMac can be? Either way, it would suck to drop two iMacs when you trip, down an escalator, off a parking garage, or any of the other scenarios these boxes of broken glass get put through in this … [Read more...]
UrtheCast – 24/7 live HD streaming video of Earth from the ISS, coming next year
UrtheCast (pronounced like "EarthCast") is a Canadian company with an ambitious plan to attach two Earth-facing cameras to the International Space Station. It will then stream the HD video live and provide the captured still images for free. The ISS orbits earth from 350km above Earth and orbits the Earth 16 times a day with a variation that will cover most inhabited areas of … [Read more...]