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Tag Archive for ‘data - Rick Tech’

Sony Online Customer Data stolen

Received this email late yesterday. Dear Valued Sony Online Entertainment Customer: Our ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment systems has discovered that hackers may have obtained personal customer information from SOE systems. We are today advising you that the personal information you provided us in connection with your SOE account may have [...]

OS X 10.6.2 update released

For those eagerly awaiting the latest security patches from Apple on Snow Leopard, they’re here! Client version can be downloaded here. Server version can be downloaded here. From Apple’s KB Article about the Client version, here are the fixes. General operating system fixes provided for: an issue that caused data to be deleted when using [...]

New “Get a Mac” ads

Yes, yes I know that iTunes 8.0 came out yesterday. But that pales in comparison to the new “Get a Mac” ads posted on Apple’s Site. They now claim that the Genius at the Apple store will even transfer files over for you! Incredibly news in itself and a cool bit of marketing. But I [...]

Tools to Erase (or Recover) Data

Tecnology Magazine just posted a list of tools to erase or recover data from hard drives. Unluckily most option is Windows or Linux only, although there are a couple that work on Mac A couple of the more promising ones are: USB Drive PC Repair System which is good to go on a USB Thumb [...]