Last week Alaskan Governor and Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account was deliberately hacked. The offender’s took screenshots of her email inbox and posted them for the world to see. Besides the fact a government official shouldn’t be using a free public email service to hold classified federal documents, a normal consumer […]
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Protect Your Laptop With LoJack
You’ve probably heard of LoJack as a technology for protecting your car, but when I recently purchased a new laptop from Dell, I decided to protect it with LoJack. Available from Dell as part of their warranty package, you can also buy the software separately. As far as I can tell, it installs itself and […]
Laptop Security
More and more of us are trading in our desktops for laptops because they are inexpensive, portable and just more versatile. Everyone is working on them out in the open, which makes it that much easier for someone to it pickup and walk away with it. Stop your laptop from being stolen by protecting yourself […]
Spies Like Us
Does your child know what he or she wants to do when they grow up? Astronaut? Police Officer? Teacher? Codebreaker? Yes, the National Security Agency, a government organization that originally “didn’t exist” to crack codes and ciphers is looking to your children. Someday, the current generation of spies and analysts will need to be replaced, […]
Digital Medical Tango
How private is your medical history? I was recently visiting a friend in a local hospital and I discovered the hospital had just switched that day completely from paper medical records to digital records. They no longer will be using “paper” in their day-to-day operations. I noticed a group of doctors all standing around a […]