Forget your password. Forget that dongle that gives you a number every 30 seconds. Get a Yubico YubiKey. Yubikey is a USB dongle that works with various password managers like Last Pass and Password Safe. That way you don’t have to remember your passwords – the Yubico YubiKey does that. At CES Yubico debuted the NFC […]
Of course, GoToMyPC is a sponsor of Geekazine. But I do love this product. I am actually excited for all the Citrix lines of software – GoToMeeting, GoToAssist, GoToWebinar, and of course, GoToMyPC. It’s what powered our backend at CES. I ran the Back Channel video through my PC at home. I used GoToMyPC to […]
David Henry from Netgear came over to the TPN Live CES coverage to show off the new Netgear WNDR4000. They make it easier for consumers to set up a Gigabit router. They are thinking about connections to more than computers – like mobile devices and soon, TVs. The WNDR4000 comes with applications such as “Ready Share” remote, […]
From Merriam-Webster, one of the oldest meanings of the word “hack,” dating from the early 1700s: 1 : working for hire especially with mediocre professional standards 2 : performed by, suited to, or characteristic of a hack It was not so much that Twitter was hacked. It seems, instead, that Twitter had hacks. The Guardian […]
The BBC reports that a phishing scam involving torrents has been uncovered. Their headline implies that it targets Twitter. It doesn’t, not specifically. Twitter seems to have been responsible for revealing it. The way it worked was really quite clever. After “doing some digging” the firm (Twitter) found a network of compromised torrent sites that […]
During the show the dogs decided to get a little ansy. Of course it was raining outside, so that might be why. Could also be the new puppy next door. Nonetheless, we trudged on! HP Superdome coverage – Podcast Madness – Podcast Awards – 1 Week to Blogworld Day in Tech History Try GoToAssist free […]
Except when it’s not. From the New York Times: “A list of user names and passwords for customers of Comcast, one of the nation’s largest Internet service providers, sat unprotected on the Web for the last two months. “The list was 8,000 lines long, but Comcast said late Monday that just 700 of those lines […]
We did something a little different this week as I invited a Panel of guests to talk about technology. We brought on Brian Westbrook (No, not the Football player) and Ric Morgan. We talked about Black Friday / Cyber Monday and the economy, CPG, Google Chrome, Windows XP rebirth, Sprint Networks, Slingbox, Passwords and so […]