by Joseph Forbes | Feb 26, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the join-the-crowd dept. Once upon a time, Microsoft claimed that falling prey to social engineering tactics and then being hacked was a ‘rookie mistake.’ But now is the time for companies to jump on the bandwagon, to admit they were targeted by...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 26, 2013 | Blog Entry, TECHNOLOGY
from the mr.-fusion dept. If Joseph Zawodny, a senior scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, is correct, the future of energy may lie in a nuclear reactor small enough and safe enough to be installed where the home water heater once sat. Using weak nuclear...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 26, 2013 | HAPPINESS, HEALTH
No one likes a cluttered house. But, unfortunately, no one likes cleaning a cluttered house either, especially when it’s so hard to keep clean. Take some times this weekend to declutter once and for all, and figure out an organizational scheme that works for...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 26, 2013 | HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the where-credit-is-due dept. Microsoft Azure’s cloud outperformed Amazon Web Services in a series of rigorous tests conducted by Nasuni, a storage vendor that annually benchmarks cloud service providers (CSPs). Nasuni uses public cloud resources in its...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 26, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, HARDWARE, Technicals
from the thanks-for-the-tablet-sirs dept. At last year’s RSA security conference, we ran into the Pwnie Plug. The company has just come out with a new take on the same basic idea of pen-testing devices based on commodity hardware. Reader puddingebola writes with...