I really should have knocked on wood when I wrote about passwords last week. I was practicing what I preached and knew that I was safe. But sure enough, my old Yahoo email account was just hijacked.
Your online security is only as good as your password. You probably make regular visits to dozens of sites that require passwords, so keeping track of them can be a chore. Dealing with so many passwords causes people to do some very unwise things. They might write them down, or store them on a computer file, or even use the same password for everything. All of these defeat the purpose of passwords and can result in compromising your important data.
2008, more notebook style PCs were sold than desktop PCs, and with the introduction of Netbook PCs, this should be the case for 2009. Currently, netbooks account for almost 6% of the total PC market and some analysts project that sales will remain strong throughout the holiday season. However, after that is anyone’s guess. The netbook’s small, inconvenient size and lack of capabilities may be a limiting factor to continued sales growth.
You know it can’t be good when Microsoft reveals that more than 10,000 Hotmail users may have had their private information compromised through recent Phishing scams.
Phishing is the act of illegally attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames and passwords by posing as an otherwise trustworthy entity through email or other electronic communication. [...]
If you are reading this, then there is a really good chance that you are indeed a slave to technology, or at least deeply immersed. Surrounded by lifestyle-altering, digital gadgets, you are embracing technology.
Slave may be too strong a word, but we may be so reliant on our digital devices that our basic behaviors has been permanently changed. We text, we tweet, we chat incessantly on our cellphones in grocery store check-out lines, our kids use calculators for basic math, we eschew libraries for Google, and finally, when was the last time you “looked that up in your Funk and Wagnalls?”
The desire to perform tasks faster, better and more efficiently is pretty basic, and has resulted in some pretty amazing technologies. It’s all good, right?
