Hackers go deep... Look out cloud.

This post is an excerpt from RSA Breach: An Attack That Used a Social Media Booby Trap?.

RSA had a major breach this week. Attackers stole information for 40 million two-factor authentication accounts.

That's a huge breach. And the ones affected most may be IT administrators, who in turn, run the security for countless enterprise and cloud-based services in the public and private sector. The ramifications are considerable. This attack means that hundreds if not millions of people could be affected if IT administrator accounts now get hacked.

RSA is the security division of EMC Corporation. RSA is revealing little about the attack but the news does shine light on what has to be the greatest security hole the world has ever seen.

And that's social media. People are very susceptible to these types of attacks when using services that allow them to share information.

Super Chameleon

Free Faxing from my PC

This post is an excerpt from Educational Technology Guy: FaxZero - free internet faxing.

FaxZero is a service that allows you to send a free fax, anywhere in the US or Canada, from your computer.

You simply enter your info and the recipient's and then upload a file (.DOC, .DOCX, or PDF). The service then sends you a confirmation email. Click on the link and it will send your fax. You will get another email when the fax has gone through successfully (or failed).

Don McMillan: Life After Death by PowerPoint

AI: Where are we at?

This post is an excerpt from The Dark Side of Watson : NPR.

The TV game show Jeopardy! experimented this week with IBM's latest version of artificial intelligence, "Watson," which destroyed its flesh-and-blood competition.

Could Watson be coming next for our jobs in radiology or the law?

Computer programmer and writer Martin Ford says he sees a future where artificial intelligence will take over many high-paying knowledge professions. He uses the example of radiology.

Digi textbooks on the rise

This post is an excerpt from 1 in 4 College Textbooks Will Be Digital By 2015.

Sales of digital textbooks still only account for a small fraction of the U.S. college market. But according to the latest report by the social learning platform Xplana, we have reached the tipping point for e-textbooks, and the company predicts that in the next five years digital textbook sales will surpass 25% of sales for the higher education and career education markets.

That figure is a revision from the company's report last year, which predicted that one in five college textbooks would be digital by the year 2014. Due to the rate at which colleges are embracing digital textbooks, Xplana now projects that sales will grow by 80 to 100% over the next four years.

Free virtual phone number?

This post is an excerpt from TellFi.

Get a virtual Canadian number. Totally free for an entire year.

All the features you want in a virtual phone system – including extensions, forwarding & voicemail. Perfect for small businesses or individuals.

Your future Textbook? Flexbook...

This post is an excerpt from Flexbook.

FlexBooks are customizable textbooks that you can use online or as printed books. You can share FlexBooks, and you can customize them. We provide high-quality online materials that are aligned with national and California textbook standards, and -- because FlexBooks are online -- we can keep them up to date much more easily than printed textbooks. You can use the books just as we provide them, or use only parts of them, or add you own materials or material from the web.