Posts Tagged with ‘security’

I may not fully understand behavior and motivation of a real porn lover but I can hardly imagine anyone watching porn right at the workplace - yet I was more than surprised to find out I am totally wrong. The thing is that a recent study suggests that this behavior is very possible with 3.8% of people actually admitting watching porn in the office. But while this percentage may not sound like a huge number of people, this gets much [...]

We are having some very good news today from the anti-spam battlefield with Washington Post reporting on a significant victory in the never-ending battle which has resulted in a drastic decrease in the volume of spam worldwide. The reason is simple: earlier today a web hosting firm McColo Corp. that served as a major host of numerous spam activities was disconnected from the internet.
The servers owned by McColo hosted master servers for large bot networks sending out approximately 75% of [...]

Approximately 34 thousand of students in the southwest Florida school district have been affected by a security hole and had their private information leaked online. All the students used Princeton Review program to study for annual assessment test.
After the test preparation company switched to a new hosting provider all the information students provided the program with leaked online, including their birthdays, ethnicity, gender, state ID (which in Florida is very similar to social security number) and scores in the tests [...]

Oldgregg from Hacker News reported that a friend found a gaping security hole in Tumblr. He and the friend dutifully reported it to Tumblr, then posted it as either news or a warning to other developers that you should always check, double-check, and re-double-check your app's security.
The hole is a pretty big one. By logging into your own Tumblr account, and then manually appending /admin to your URL, you could access the admin panel for the application. Looking up user [...]

You may recall back in mid-summer when Ask.com delivered a message about a new search feature it planned to launch by the end of the year. Well, here we are. December 11th. And Ask has apparently made good on its promise.
The promise was to bring about a search function that enables Ask Search users to browse the engine’s digital stacks in complete anonymity. No keyword cookies saved. No records of foot- and fingerprints filed away. Nope. Just you and [...]

The modern invention known as OpenID, first developed by a Mr Brad Fitzpatrick (creator of LiveJournal), offers quite an enticing prospect. In essence, its purpose is to simplify greatly the maintenance of multiple Web service/utility accounts, by providing a single name and single password, both (ideally) secure, in order that the user’s experience when interacting with said accounts be as seamless and fluid as possible. No documents full of passcodes to maintain. No need to entrust sensitive data to various [...]

There’s been a great deal of positive buzz being made over the OpenSocial development platform Google recently unveiled.
And there’s also an ample amount of consternation being voiced about the new open standard. In particular, there exists some skepticism of Google’s (and it’s partners’) ability to employ firm and practically insurmountable security measures for OpenSocial, to ensure that the free flow of personal – and in some cases confidential - information remains under a solid set of locks and [...]

Are you familiar with the V-Chip? It’s a piece of technology embedded into television sets sold in the US for a number of years that allows authoritative wacks parents, guardians, or elders the luxury of controlling what the “underage” can view without said parents, guardians, or elders having to actually supervise said “underage”. Snazzy, eh?
Well, the proponents of this asinine invention (I’m all for proper programming, but as the American television rating system is no doubt ridiculous, I am thus [...]

Yesterday, MySpace announced that it had “detected and deleted” 29,000 convicted sex offenders on its social networking site. With over 100 million users, the solicitation of minors by adults has become a major problem on Myspace. The social network has been under a lot of pressure to relieve the problem and implement measures that would make solicitation more difficult in the future.
With many Myspace users as young as 14 years old, and nearly as many who are middle-aged or older, [...]