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10 encryption tips for the enterprise Whether you're protecting corporate data from internal leakers, hackers looking to steal money from you and your customers, foreign spies, your own government, or employees accidentally leaving their laptops in a taxi, encryption is today's hot go-to tool. But encryption done wrong can be worse than no encryption at all, since it gives you an unwarranted senses of security. Here are tips for doing encryption right. TIP 1: Use the strongest encryption you can If your data must absolutely, positively, be protected at all cost, use well-known, battle-tested algorithms and the longest keys you can practically manage. Use hardware-based encryption to take it up another notch. The NSA isn't the only organization out there with supercomputers. Intel is one of several companies working on expanding hardware-based encryption technologies. Moving these processes to the hardware level can increase speeds four-fold, says Jason Ke...

Yes, Bill Gates finally admitted that Ctrl+Alt+Del 'was a mistake,' but it was because the IBM design guy wouldn't give him a single button. At a Harvard fundraising campaign, Harvard Campaign co-chair David Rubenstein, asked Bill Gates, "Why, when I want to turn on my software and computer, do I need to have three fingers on Ctrl+Alt+Delete? What is that -- where does that come from? Whose idea was that?" Ctrl+Alt+DeleteGates began with a "complex" reply, "Basically, because when you turn your computer on, you're gonna see some screens and eventually type your password in - you want to have something you do with the keyboard that is signaling to a very low level of the software - actually hard-coded in the hardware - that it really is bringing in the operating system you expect, instead of just a funny piece of software that puts up a screen that looks like a login screen, and then it listens to your password and then it's ab...

Author of Modern Seinfeld hired to write for Fox’s ‘Us & Them’ Some of us felt within its first 24 hours that the author or authors behind a novelty Twitter account called Modern Seinfeld were funny enough to write for a real sitcom. Turns out we were right, as The Hollywood Reporter says the Fox sitcom "Us & Them" has added former BuzzFeed writer Jack Moore to its writing staff based at least in part on Moore's contributions to the Seinfeld Twitter account. Moore tells The Hollywood Reporter that the Twitter account was "uniquely positioned" to help him. "I was basically pitching storylines, which is a huge part of being on a writing staff. Here's 400 [of them] that illustrated a skill set." The premise of Modern Seinfeld is simple: What if the TV sitcom Seinfeld had never gone off the air? Hilarity ensues. (Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive) When I wrote about Modern Seinfeld last December it was less than a day old...

Tablet flop hits earnings, which missed Wall Street's expectations by large margin Microsoft today took an unexpected $900 million charge to account for what it called "inventory adjustments" for the Surface RT, the poor-selling tablet that debuted last year. Later today, Microsoft will hold a conference call with Wall Street analysts, but its fourth-quarter fiscal numbers -- published on its website shortly after the U.S. financial markets closed -- pointed out the massive write-down. The company has been aggressively discounting the Surface RT, which runs the scaled-down Windows RT, a tablet-specific version of Windows 8 that relies exclusively on the "Modern," nee "Metro," tile-based user interface and app ecosystem. On Sunday, for instance, Microsoft chopped the price of the Surface RT by $150, or 30% for the 32GB model, to bring it down from the original $499 to $349. The 64GB Surface RT was also discounted by $150, a 25% price ...