Facebook recently rolled out a number of changes to the social networking site. One of the changes eliminates the <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/238708/facebook_revamps_locationsharing_feature_in_places.html">concept of Facebook Places</a>, but instead incorporates location-aware updates at virtually every level of Facebook. You might want to think twice, though, before <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/209709/facebook_deals_bring_customers_to_your_facebook_place.html">broadcasting your location</a> to the anonymous masses online.
Tony Bradley |
30 Aug |
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This past week in security news was highlighted by a hacking revelation out of China, bad news for banks, good news for Sony gaming customers and a curious email that might have been at the heart of the big RSA data breach.
Ellen Messmer |
27 Aug |
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Google+ is taking its "<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/236531/naming_names_google_wrestles_with_anonymity.html?tk=rel_news">real names</a>" policy seriously. So seriously, in fact, that it threatened to suspend sex and tech writer Violet Blue's account. Google’s only problem is that Blue’s real name is Violet Blue.
Sarah Jacobsson Purewal |
24 Aug |
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Twitter is slowly turning on automatic encryption on its website, a move following other major providers of web-based services to thwart account hijacking over wireless networks.
Jeremy Kirk |
24 Aug |
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Recently, I contended that "Freedom and privacy, in any meaningful sense, are dead" and discussed the two types of privacy, "factual" privacy, which concerns "static" data such as your age and cholesterol level, and "lifestream" privacy which is the realtime data about things such as where you go and who you talk to.
Mark Gibbs |
24 Aug |
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Facebook is making a series of design changes to the site to make it clearer to users who can see the content that they post, an issue Google has been criticizing Facebook about since it launched its own social network, Google+, in June.
Juan Carlos Perez |
24 Aug |
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McAfee's talking-up of the threats represented by Operation Shady RAT supports a convenient narrative, but how much do we accurately know about the unidentified enemy or enemies? Not a lot, I'd wager.
Stilgherrian |
24 Aug |
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Have you been paying attention? <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/topic/17/Security">Security</a> threats around the world have changed over the past few years. One of the fundamental differences is that the motives for security breaches have multiplied.
Scot Finnie |
22 Aug |
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The inability for network defenders to tell between a human-led attack and one that was led by automated malware is crucial to defending against advanced persistent threats (APTs), according to US security firm, HB Gary.
Liam Tung |
22 Aug |
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A nifty Google browser extension called "Google Related" makes finding associated Web content a snap, but for privacy-minded Web surfers the convenience will come with a hefty cost. The Chrome Web browser extension creates a navigation bar at the bottom of the browser, and as you roll your mouse cursor over the bar Google generates content relevant to what's on the page you're viewing.
John P. Mello Jr. |
18 Aug |
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Google issued a new study on Wednesday detailing how it is becoming more difficult to identify malicious websites and attacks, with antivirus software proving to be an ineffective defense against new ones.
Jeremy Kirk |
18 Aug |
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Symantec believes animal rights protestors against the “Dog Wars” app for Android were behind a fake version that has been laced with a Trojan.
Liam Tung |
18 Aug |
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Besides humans that don't change default passwords, the lowest hanging fruit are embedded Linux devices in routers.
Liam Tung |
17 Aug |
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Despite Google’s efforts to bolster internal privacy initiatives after its Street View fiasco, there was still room for improvement, according to the UK’s Information Commissioner.
Liam Tung |
17 Aug |
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Google's US$12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility is being reported primarily in terms of access to patents and difficulty integrating the corporate cultures. But there's also a potential longer-term spin-off. Secure Android smartphones.
Stilgherrian |
16 Aug |
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Another <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/681894/amazon-s-cloud-failed-how-can-your-cloud-be-better-">Amazon cloud-services outage</a> occurred on Sunday, August 7th in a Dublin, Ireland data center. This one occurred due to a lightning strike that hit a transformer near the Dublin data center. It led to an explosion and fire that knocked out all utility services thereby leading to a total data center outage. Amazon had its only European data center located there.
Gregory Machler |
16 Aug |
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Recent publicity for online hacking groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec has seemed to show that nobody is immune from attack on the Internet. Once targeted, it seems that these groups are capable of breaching security systems and retrieving data, including identity information, from the most secure systems.
Robert Layton |
13 Aug |
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A lot of the software written for Google's Android mobile phones falls short when it comes to user privacy and security.
Robert McMillan |
13 Aug |
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The U.S. government will work to develop an "unrivaled" cybersecurity workforce and broaden the nation's pool of skilled cyberworkers under a draft cybersecurity education plan released Friday by a U.S. agency.
Grant Gross |
13 Aug |
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This week's storm over LinkedIn's opt-out foolishness is a valuable reminder that businesses need to maintain a close watch on social networking services (SNS) and be prepared to respond swiftly to any changes.
Stilgherrian |
12 Aug |
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