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How to Create a Secure Password

Creating a good password is very simple, but many people do not want to take a couple minutes to do so. A large social network applications website RockYou.com was recently hacked, and the results were posted online. This gave researchers something to think about, because there were 32 million email addresses, passwords, user names, etc. to be studied. Imperva compiled the results of their research recently, and they found that 30% of users had passwords of six characters or less and...

New York Times Charging for Content

The NY Times is not only one of the most popular influential newspapers in America, it is also one of the most popular websites. For quite a while you had to have a subscription in order to view articles on the New York Times, but for the past few years they have been fully ad supported, while giving out all of their content for free. This was the last straw for most other online publications, with the Wall Street Journal being the only major publication to continue charging for...