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What LulzSec Teaches us About Network Security

After fifty days of causing mayhem and running about the Internet unharmed, LulzSec has decided to disband as an organization. The constituent members remain at large, mind you, and surely they haven’t lost their taste for private data. There almost certainly will not be a reduction in break-ins, although they may now be more discrete. [...]

What to Expect from Internet-Enabled Televisions

I recently had the opportunity to attend the launch party for Sony’s new Internet TV (pictures are available on the TechThrob Facebook Page), which is powered by the Google Android operating system. While I was originally skeptical about the usefulness of an internet-enabled TV, being able to see and use the device convinced me that [...]

3 Types Of Backup You Need For Complete Data Protection

Note: This is a guest post contributed by StoragePipe.com. When we think of data protection, most people just imagine themselves copying their computer over to another device on a regular basis… so that it can be copied back in an emergency. Of course, it’s not that simple. There are many different challenges that make data [...]

Public Service Announcement: Verify Your Backups!

There’s only one thing worse than having no backup at all: thinking you have a backup, and finding out it doesn’t work when you go to restore. It seems like common sense, but unfortunately backup validation is often overlooked. After establishing a backup system, it’s vital that you periodically check to make sure that it [...]

5 things to look forward to in Ubuntu 10.10

Maverick Meerkat, the version of Ubuntu slated to be released later this year, brings with it several features and improvements that the Linux community has been eagerly looking forward to. I’ve taken a look at the blueprints for this next release, and picked out a few of the major items that Linux end-users will be [...]

Birth of the World Wide Web – A Breif History

Before the Web: Hypertext The First Web Server (©) Sir Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web; he wrote the first web browser, aptly named WorldWideWeb, and the first web server (software used to transmit webpages from a server to a user’s computer). However, the idea of an inter-connected system of information, [...]