IS YOUR PASSWORD STRONG ENOUGH

Ok so here we are again choosing lame password that are very easy to guess and easier to brute force attacking  softwares to crack it. Recent study has showed that 30% of the users choose password that are less than six characters or less, 60% of users choose their password from a limited set of alpha-numeric characters in fact almost 50% users used names, dictionary words, slang words or consecutive digits or alphabets. Many people use '123456' as password in fact it is the most common password used online (how lame is it).

Recently I blogged about Twitter banning 370 passwords on the registration page which include similar, most common and lame passwords used over the net.  So whats there with people choosing such a lame password like 'abc123' or '123456' or 'password' itself and leave a digital key like the one under the door mate of your house,
“I guess it’s just a genetic flaw in humans,” said Amichai Shulman, the chief technology officer at Imperva

TOSHIBA DEVELOPS 1TB HARDDISK OF THE SIZE OF A POSTAGE STAMP

Gone are the days of punch cards, gone are the days of  magnetic tapes gone are the days of 5" harddrive and gone are the days of bluerays also(before it can capture the market).
Yeah in the recent future you can definitely plan to throw away your latest, fastest and smallest storage medium.
That means throwing your 2.5" drives that comes in your notebook and even 1.8" drive that's inside your ipod.

With the development of promising SSDs (solid state drive) which is yet to revolutionize the way we store our data.

GOOGLE BUZZING AROUND WITH BUZZ

This tuesday google launched its new gmail feature named buzz. As google says that gmail was just an e-mail 5 years ago, but then they added chat and then voice and video chat taking gmail a leap forward from others and making it more interactive.Now google launched google buzz that is right just there integrated in your inbox, from where you can view the stuff shared by your friend in real time, as all of ours habit has become to share the photos and videos and articles etc etc, ultimately sharing anything that we find intresting. So from now on you don't have to go around searching for shared items as it will be present right there in your inbox.
It also connects your other accounts like flickr, twitter, youtube, blogspot, picasa and google reader.

FACEBOOK REDESIGNS ITS LAYOUT

It's haven't been a long time since we have witnessed changes in Facebook, earlier it was Facebook lite(which was beta ofcourse for testing) and then the changed or rather enhancing security features. Just when you log into your Facebook account you must had noticed that it have gone through a major transformation, with much of the feel like that of Facebook lite (which they were testing since a couple of months) although a better feel indeed. And this simplified layout was to mark a milestone of being 6 years in existence. It also claims that the no of users has doubled from 200 million to 400 million on its fifth birthday making it far above all the others social networking sites, and yeah the average time spent on Facebook is also longer than other sites.
It has rolled out the changes in some 80 million users for its initial phase.Which is full of more visible and easy-to-use features.