By Dealman
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9 months ago
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Loose Change
Image courtesy of ICanHasCheezburger
This week we have the jobs report & the smog report, Starz ditches Netflix, the media frenzy about Hurricane Irene, popular blogs getting hacked, and two stories about chickens--with bonus chicken video.
By Rick.BroidaGuest Blogger
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9 months ago
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Spotlight Deals
If you've used any
Norton security products in the past, you probably took one look at that headline and said, "
Ugh. No way. Never again."
And I wouldn't blame you. A few years back, the Norton stuff was bloated, buggy, intrusive, annoying, and likely to make your PC run like molasses.
That was then. In recent years,
Symantec has made considerable improvements to its security software. It's faster, quieter, and smarter, to the point where you barely know it's there--unless it detects a problem.
By pmiller
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12 months ago
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Newsworthy
Photo via Flickr courtesy of Johnathan Nightingale
For Sony and its users, the news just keeps getting worse. First the
Sony Playstation hack exposed the personal info of gamers, and then the
Sony Pictures hack allowed the movie-going crowd to get in on the misery.
Now the hacking group responsible for the latter breach has posted the names and passwords of Sony Pictures users as a torrent file for all to download. But there is a silver lining: As noted on MetaFilter, helpful programmer
Troy Hunt analyzed the leak to show that most of us don't choose secure passwords.
