Category archive for ‘Computing’
RSA Security Breach Revealed
Written by on 3/21/11, with no comments
In a real upset, the RSA security company needs some security help and the bottom line is that you’re not quite as secure using RSA as you thought you were. In what they called a very advanced security attack, Art Coviello, who is the crown prince and the executive chairman of RSA (a division of [...]
That’s What Ya Get For Bragging on FB
Written by on 3/14/11, with one comments
Facebook has solved a set of burglaries that netted the taker more than 15 thousand dollars worth of jewelry–but he lost it all due to a timely post on Facebook by his girlfriend. The theft netted the man a stolen 3 carat diamond ring in the Saturday breakin–but social networking saves the day…it seems that [...]
COICO-DHS-EFF -What’s It All Mean?
Written by on 3/14/11, with no comments
Interesting developments in the DHS or the Department of Homeland security, who is claiming that merely linking out to copyrighted materials is a crime now. Interestingly enough nearly all materials on the internet are copyrighted in one way or another. DHS, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in tow have now done what we said [...]
Courts Rule AGAINST Your Privacy in Twitter Battle
Written by on 3/11/11, with no comments
In this news from the Electronic Frontier Foundation Court Rules Against Privacy in Battle Over Twitter Records Federal court ruling, passed down today in Virginia, stated that the government can in fact collect all of the records of the three users of Twitter that they wanted to investigate in the WikiLeaks cases. Sadly they also [...]
Microsoft Needs More Money-You Lose
Written by on 11/08/10, with no comments
“In early 2008, Microsoft Corp.’s product planners for the Internet Explorer 8.0 browser intended to give users a simple, effective way to avoid being tracked online. They wanted to design the software to automatically thwart common tracking tools, unless a user deliberately switched to settings affording less privacy.” http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20012845-265.html Apparently Microsoft didn’t like the idea. [...]