I’m used to hearing news about the U.S. government spying on its country, but here in Canada? No, that would never happen… Guess I was wrong. Canada’s privacy watchdog is pointing a finger at Ottawa, claiming government officials are using social media to spy on all of us—for no reason at all.
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By now most of you are security conscious. You know what to click, what not to, and have your Facebook profiles locked down—leaving all your personal info visible to just your friends (right?). Status updates, wall posts, photos, who your friends are—all of that info is safe. But when it comes to “liking” something, that’s a whole different story. Likes are public. You’d be surprised to know there’s more info about you out there than you’d care to, well—like.
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Do you use Yahoo Voice? If so, you’ll be happy to know that your login info – both email and password – could have been one of the 450,000 accounts that got hacked and posted online this morning. Yahoooooo!….. No, that’s not a good thing. It’s time to change your password.
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Google Drive has arrived and people all over are taking the new cloud storage service out for a spin. While an issue over converting your files into Google Docs format to work on them is a slight bump in the road, there is one major roadblock— the terms of service.
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Google has always cared about the security of your web browsing in Chrome. They’ve even dared the public to try and crack their browser in a contest. After years of unsuccessful attempts hackers got in. Chrome got pwned* — for the first time! Twice.
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We’ve all had some embarrassing photos posted to Facebook (or had them posted by others). If caught quickly enough and deleted, everything is good, right? Wrong. The photos are still there and can be accessed through the original direct URL links. Facebook has known about this for three years. Oops?
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In a perfect world, when it comes to browsers, safety should be your first concern above all else. Of course the world is not perfect and many of us choose our browser for a number of other reasons, sacrificing safety. Silly people. Google understands this though. Yesterday they released their 7 security goals for making Chrome safe while giving you all of the goodies you want. Now you can have your cake and eat it too.
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Facebook is no stranger to privacy and security issues. Research shows that 600,000 hacking attempts are made every day. Two new security features on the way—Trusted Friends and App Passwords.
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Blackout BlackBerry week has been quite the roller coaster ride for over 70 million people worldwide. The service outage has been blamed on “infrastructure problems”. The same systems in place that make the network so secure are what caused it to collapse.
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Patch Tuesday? Again already? Yup, it sure is! And no, Microsoft hasn’t decided to start using an update schedule like Adobe for Flash and Acrobat. Don’t worry, it has in fact been a month (I checked). Get patching!
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Phishing scams rely on your curious nature to entice you to click. ‘Curiosity killed the cat’, and in this case your curiosity just got your personal data stolen.
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Ever wish you could go back in time? Maybe to relive a fond moment, or erase one? Now you can! Well, at least on Facebook. Timeline was unveiled today. Get ready, it’s going to be a life changer.
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