PlayStation Network breach is Sony’s shameful nadir
Posted by: Scot Petersen
Another week, another major hack. It seems these things go in cycles. There was a major breach at email provider Epsilon earlier this month. But the
Another week, another major hack. It seems these things go in cycles. There was a major breach at email provider Epsilon earlier this month. But the
Mondays have a reputation for being the least favorite day of the week for many people. Normally I disagree with that feeling, but this Monday at 9 a.m., my laptop started acting a little hinky. I knew something was up, but then 10 minutes later, Windows warned me that it had blocked some strange...
The news last week that Cisco killed the Flip mini-camcorder -- or, as Cisco put it, restructured its consumer products division -- is full of surprises. First, I...
I live in a relatively modest 1,500-square-foot bungalow. It was built shortly after World War II by the first owner, a man who wanted his house to withstand possible mortar attacks from a resurgent Axis Alliance. Embedded within its very walls...
My wife and I started getting the emails April 4. Best Buy. Our bank. Other e-commerce sites we had shopped. The impact of the Epsilon security breach was far and...
The first "mobile computing device" that I used was a 30-pound IBM "luggable" PC. It cost more than $4,000 and boasted the Intel 8088 microprocessor running at a blazing 4.77 MHz and ran off of two 5 1/4-inch floppy drives. There really wasn't anything mobile about it, and not much computing was to...
Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that retiring Baby Boomers will leave a record number of jobs open when they retire -- by the time 2018 rolls around, we'll be looking at a...