by Joseph Forbes | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the you’re-gonna-need-a-bigger-post-it dept. Deloitte predicts that 8-character passwords will become insecure in 2013. Humans have trouble remembering passwords with more than seven characters, and it is difficult to enter long, complex passwords into...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 5, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the too-much-effort dept. Last year, Rackspace planned to support third-party OpenStack distributions as part of its private cloud offering. That was then. ‘Things have evolved quickly as enterprises start evaluating their options in the cloud generally and...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 4, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY
from the oh-don’t-you-worry dept. Leading privacy expert Caspar Bowden, warned European citizens not to use cloud services hosted in the U.S. over spying fears. Bowden, former privacy adviser to Microsoft Europe, explained at a panel discussion hosted at the...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 3, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support
First of all, there’s probably no reason to worry about this! There are a number of normal things happening in the background on your home network, out across the internet at large, and between your cable modem and your ISP that make it look like there’s a...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Web Hosting
from the just-because-you’re-paranoid-doesn’t-mean-they-aren’t-after-you dept. Last week the CEO ServiceNow made a minor splash by claiming that it was awfully easy for a cloud provider to spy on the data they stored for you or discriminate based on...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the your-curtains-are-ugly dept. Eighteen brands of security camera digital video recorders are vulnerable to an attack that would allow a hacker to remotely gain control of the devices to watch, copy, delete or alter video streams at will, as well as to use the...
