Tag Archive for 'security'
Look past the dubious styling - obviously designed to appeal to anyone who loves Mister Whippy ice-cream - and the Fontastic PT-9 is a pretty decent little GPS tracker. Not only does it contain a SiRF-Star III chipset but a tri-band GSM chipset (900, 1,800 and 1,900MHz) so, at the touch of a button, your exact [...]
As anyone who has been burgled knows, after the initial shock begins to ebb you’re generally filled with a sense of “if I got my hands on those…” which descends rapidly into expletives. But since vigilantism isn’t particularly approved of, how much better would it be if your home extracted revenge?
Cable locks for laptops aren’t anything new. They’re nice to have because they keep your laptop from running off when you’re not looking. I doubt that there are people devious enough to actually take your laptop, so I’m pretty sure that they just get up and walk off now and then.
Need something a little more girly to strike fear into future attackers? Well I suppose just because it’s violent doesn’t mean it can’t be cute.
Passwords suck. That’s all there is to it. Everything you do these days requires one, and they all seem to have different requirements, so you’re stuck remembering half a dozen of them. Oh, and don’t forget about the corresponding usernames. Here’s something that will help keep track of them for you.
The Eikon Digital Privacy Manager [...]
Security is always a big thing, and people that handle sensitive information can never be too careful. We’ve seen a lot of products that feature fingerprint readers, but what about more futuristic methods of identifying yourself?
If we needed another reason to persuade friends and family not to use AOL, here is is. Apparently, while the sign-up page suggests account passwords can be up to sixteen characters (and security experts, like porn stars, would tell you that more is better), AOL actually only use the first eight characters.
Remember those random password generators that Paypal started giving out a little while ago? VeriSign is hoping to take that technology a step further.
They have noted that one-time use passwords haven’t taken off here in the US because people don’t want to carry around a little password generator with them everywhere. So instead they have [...]
No, you daft sausage, this happy woman isn’t using some new fangled hand-massage machine, she’s excited because she can finally secure her precious knitting patterns using the latest in full-hand biometrics. Who needs individual fingers when you can scan the whole damn palm, too!
Wouldn’t it be scary if there was a flash drive out there that could grab your most sensitive data off of your computer with little or no effort? Be warned, Such as device exists.
