I hope you haven’t spent a lot on buying smart luggage thinking you could track it electronically as you travel. Turns out, they have batteries, like the batteries that aren’t currently allowed in a checked bag. On the brink of the gift-giving season when “smart luggage” might be high on some travelers’ wish lists, we’re…
We sent a version of this to our attorneys at work too. 😉 Thanksgiving has passed, and while we know there are plenty of other holidays to look forward to in December, we don’t want you to overlook a very important day right at the start of the month. Dec. 1st is eDiscovery Day! …
Update 11/29 – looks like Apple has released a patch. Whoa… “Wow, this is a bad one. On Macs running the latest version of High Sierra — 10.13.1 (17B48) — it appears that anyone can log in just by putting “root” in the user name field. This is a huge, huge problem. Apple will fix…
Free WiFi is not a safe place – Siciliano says in his line of work he’s been seeing an increase in hackers prying on people using free Wi-Fi on their smart phones. Because the free Wi-Fi doesn’t encrypt your data, hackers can use a scanning tool to duplicate a person’s device by cloning their IME…
It’s not just musicians, it’s also little websites like mine, for this same reason: When someone buys digital music from an artist directly they’ll see long, slow downloads that hopefully manage to finish. When they stream music from that same musician’s site it’ll hang and pause unless it’s compressed to hell. But when that same…
This is an interesting idea that might be an easy way to eliminate at least some of the malware epidemic. I enabled it on my Macbook for the past day or two and haven’t noticed it really, which I guess just means I haven’t tried to access any sites that have been distributing malware. A…