RSA executive chairman Art Coviello said that if 2011 was the year of the attack, then 2012 will be the year of resiliency and adaptation within the industry.
In an open letter, Coviello said the company’s experiences of this year “have indeed made us …
RSA’s Art Coviello predicts 2012 to be the year of resiliency and adaptation
Why keeping up with RSS is poisonous to productivity, sanity
On the surface, RSS seems great for those of us who want to keep up on everything happening on the Internet—and I mean everything. As for me, I use RSS regularly at five minute intervals for pretty much the entire time I’m awake. I use RSS for both w…
4 Tips for Creating Link Bait
Posted by Geoff KenyonWhile link bait is frequently seen as more "fun", and it’s definitely more creative, than doing things like guest blogging or emailing people asking for links, it has its challenges. I wanted to share a few things I’ve l…
BlackHat USA 2011
“Men’s minds have difficulty adapting to things with which they have no experience.” Almost 10,000 security pros, hackers and interested folks gathered at BlackHat USA this morning at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. The morning began with a keynote talk…
Review of Programming Amazon EC2 Posted
Amazon.com just posted my four star review of Programming Amazon EC2 by Jurg van Vliet and Flavia Paganelli. O’Reilly provided a free review copy. From the review:Because this is a short book, I’ll write a short review. Programming Amazon EC2 (PAE) e…
Buying a Laser Cutter From China
We here at Hackaday have been pining over these cheap laser cutters on the e-bay. They are, however, just outside of the price range to make them worth ponying up for. [Stephen Hobley] however seems to have taken one for the team in his three part series, and is allowing us to live vicariously through …
Intel’s new Oak Trail chip headed for tablet limbo
In the beginning, there was the x86 mobile Internet device (MID)—a compact, handheld, touchscreen-enabled, Windows- and Linux-based device that, in the end, nobody really wanted. As of today’s Atom Z670 series launch, there’s the x86 tablet 
Sharing Everything I Learned As A Top-Tier SEO Consultant at SEOmoz
Posted by Danny DoverThis post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.Prepar…
Keypad input scanning by a 555 timer
[R-B] designed a 555 timer circuit to scan a keypad. Keypads are common interfaces for small projects and require row and column scanning by a microcontroller. [R-B's] setup allows you to reduce the number of pins used on the microcontroller to just two. One is an interrupt that is triggered when any of the buttons …
