Okay, maybe not just for me, but since I’m a SOHO kind of guy, the QNAP TS-209 NAS server sure fits the bill. Sporting two hot-swappable bays, a 500MHz processor, 128MB of DDR2 RAM cache,  gigabit Ethernet, and up to 2TB of storage. And that’s just the hardware. Check out the server capabilities:

• File server
• FTP server
• Backup server
• RAID-1 Mirroring with Hot-swap design
• Remote Replication
• Web server
• MySQL server
• Printer server
• UPnP Media server
• Photo Sharing
• Download Station
• iTunes server
• Cross-platform support
• Scads of security

Coming soon for probably a fair amount of cash.

Media players in personal computers are the current vulnerable spot which can allow unauthorized access to your computer. So says David Thiel, senior security consultant with iSEC Partners, at a recent Black Hat hacker conference.

"The actual potential for attack is reasonably severe because nobody cares about actually playing videos from YouTube or playing music on Web pages – you can’t get music to stop playing at you," he said. "Because this stuff is launched automatically, I think the impact could be significant."
"This is the next logical place to attack," Moss said. "People know not to open strange documents, but they click on MP3s all day long."

The hope is now that these findings have been published, the companies will find the flaws in their players and patch them quickly.

More USB flash drives but Transcend’s new 2-4-8GB crop (top items) incorporates fingerprint scanning and 256-bit AES encryption for Â¥17,800 (about $149). The colorful bunch on bottom line is the JetFlash V35 with various capacities and no security features for Â¥16,800 (about $141). Both available in Japan this month. For a few dollars extra, who wouldn’t opt for the security version?

Apple has yet another patent, this one for new generations of iPods that would refuse to charge if stolen. The device would recognize if plugged into an unauthorized computer by a security code link. If the codes on the player and the computer don’t match up, it just won’t charge – in essence, self-destructing.