Your Digital Afterlife: Password Management Beyond the Grave
Most people do not print photos anymore, or bank statements, or much of anything, really. If you were to pass away suddenly, would anyone in your life know how to access the digital equivalent of the dusty scrapbooks and filing cabinets of yesteryear? That morbid question begins to surface more and more in our society…
Heartbleed – What You need to know
A major new vulnerability called Heartbleed could let attackers gain access to users' passwords and fool people into using bogus versions of Web sites. Heartbleed is a recently discovered software flaw that could leave millions of servers on the Internet open to an attack which allows sensitive data, such as user passwords, to be stolen.…
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The 10 Most Expensive Blogs Ever Sold
There are as many different types of bloggers as there are faces. But there’s something that every single one of them has in common: they all started with a hope, an excitement, a feeling that what they were beginning could actually be something. And if they could just do it the way they could feel…
How To Create a US Store Apple ID In Nigeria
Big ups to Uncle Jobs, the Apple app store was finally made available to us Third World folks in Nigeria. Not that i blame the guy for the delay, afterall, how much do we contribute to Apple's bottom line, if at all. The joy of this "immense feat" was however short-lived when a disturbing aspect…
Protect Your Data From the Breach Epidemic
Sony’s recent data breach got all the headlines, but such attacks aren’t rare. Here’s how to protect yourself and your data from them. IN 2011 ALONE, tens of millions of users have had personal information exposed or put at risk in some way by data breaches at Epsilon, RSA Security, the state of Texas, Ashampoo,…
iPad in the Enterprise
The iPad is transforming the way businesses use technology. More than just a consumer phenomenon, the iPad is disrupting business models and power structures within corporate information technology (IT) departments. Within 90 days of being released, the device was already adopted by 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies. This unprecedented rate of market penetration represents…
Nigeria fails to enact cyber crime laws
Nigeria has failed to pass broad-ranging laws against cybercrime. A collection of six laws put before the country's parliament last month would have outlawed many forms of internet misuse, including spamming, online ID theft, and buying goods online using stolen credit card details. All remain permissible in Nigeria, whose only legislation on internet crime (article…