Social Media SEO
Considering that over a billion people use Facebook, 500 million Twitter and 400 million Google+, the consideration that our information may not be as secure as we hope is more prevalent than ever. To minimize the risk and to have a higher chance of protecting your information when using social media platforms, there are several […]
The Hacker group AntiSec claims to have 12 million iPhone and iPad UDIDs it obtained during an attack on an FBI agent’s compromised notebook, according to a report in The Next Web. It made 1 million of the stolen UDIDs publicly available in a file posted on Pastebin. The UDID is a unique 40-digit code […]
I picked up a new Dell the other day along with Windows 7. Yes, it took me that long to convert from XP to 7, kind of embarrassing for a web guy. I’ll justify it by the fact that I own a Macbook when I’m at home. Anyway, I got the huge monitor and computer […]
Good question! Yes, there will be times when Facebook will ask for our password, however as Emil Protalinski from the article “Facebook will never request your password over email” mentions, they have changed their terms to read: I got an email asking for my Facebook password. Do not respond to this email. Facebook will never […]
Eric the “cell phone jammer”, from Philidelphia has stirred up a lot of controversy when he was caught using a cell phone jammer on a public bus. Authorities were tracking him down after finding out that he was using it on multiple occasions. So what does a cell phone jammer do? If you haven’t figured […]
Email addresses and passwords of over a million users of a popular sex chat site, YouPorn, were open to all due to a coding error that was undetected since 2007. The data included customer data, including email addresses. Hopefully yours wasn’t in there! Many hackers will browse websites looking for folders in public directories that […]
The casual coffee shop visitor who whips out his or her laptop to enjoy some free Wi-Fi service has more reason to be concerned these days.
Developer Eric Butler has produced a web browser add-on called Firesheep that makes viewing and using people’s private, sensitive information over wireless networks easy for even complete novices.
Butler reportedly had good intentions in creating this very dangerous tool. Because of its ease of use, Firesheep’s potential for doing damage is huge. Butler explains that “it’s extremely common for websites to protect your password by encrypting the initial login, but surprisingly uncommon for websites to encrypt everything else. This leaves the cookie (and the user) vulnerable.” Because of the widespread exploitation of such security holes, Butler contends that he created Firesheep “to demonstrate just how serious this problem is.”