500px informed it’sown users, but PetaPixel and The Register wrote about the data theft in which sixteen web services were hacked and about 620 million users’ data was stolen. Among these sites there was the popular photo sharing site 500px as well. The hackers got 14.5 million users’ personal information. The large scale data hacking was revealed after the 10 GB worth of data was published as available for buyers on the Dark Web. This should alert you to reset your passwords!

With CS6 Adobe discontinues boxed versions of it’s creative software. In the future they will only be available throgh the Creative Cloud subscription service. Of corse the previously owned boxed versions will continue to operate, but you cannot buy them and the company releases no more updates to them to increase their compatibility or stability.

In the Christmas preparation preriod Adobe made his best offer ever to connvince photographers to choose their cloud base subscriptions. They offered an unbeatable price for the most popular photography software package.

Facebook site of the teenage daughter of a friend got hacked and it was flooded by porn pictures and then it was shared everywhere across the net. This gave me the idea to write about the security of our passwords.

(One of) Apple’s great innovation in the field of computers has been introducing the use of MagSafe. It is nothing else but a magnetic attachment of the power cable to the computer. This way you can forget the traditional plugs that go deep into the computer and thus easily bend or break in an instant when you trip the cable or what is worse you even drag the laptop from the desk and break the machine as well.