Tag Archives: security
Morning Musings: Facebook Apps in trouble over privacy breach
The Wall Street Journal has published an article detailing a new security breach with Facebook and its applications. WSJ claims that some of the most popular applications on Facebook have been transmitting user identification data, something they are claiming affects everyone regardless of privacy settings. The investigation from the WSJ has found that names and in some [...]
Online Security – The Latest on Passwords
CNN reports on a study carried out by Georgia Tech researchers that says it is time to ditch the 8-character password in favor of 12 characters. Password crackers have become more sophisticated recently by employing “dictionary attacks” (using a database of words and common character sequences to try to guess the password), and “brute force [...]
Morning Musings: Facebook Announces Places
Announced yesterday afternoon, Facebook is adding location check-in to the mobile platform through the use of a new feature known as Places. Those with iPhones and mobile browsers that support HTML 5 will be able to share the geographic location with Facebook. Places will allow users to add locations, check in to those locations, and [...]
Morning Musings: Don't Press the F1 Key in XP
From Computer World Security, it looks like there may be a new vulnerability that will impact Windows XP users. The security advisory was posted late last night, and states that users of Windows XP and Internet Explorer (IE8, IE7, and IE6 are all vulnerable) should hold off from pressing their F1 keys on their keyboard [...]
BREAKING: The whole internet is broken!
The internet as we know was completely broken yesterday (Thursday August 6th, 2009), and it will never be the same again. Popular web services, Twitter, Facebook, and Livejournal, were all targets of a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) that brought all of the services to their knees. The loss of service to these websites [...]