Archive for May 25th, 2010

Facebook will offer easier privacy controls Wednesday

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Facebook will offer easier privacy controls Wednesday

ComputerWorld is quoting a spokesman for Facebook, Andrew Noyes, as saying that the social-networking giant will offer new privacy tools tomorrow so users can control who sees their information and whether Facebook can share that data with other Web si... »

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POC: phishing with open browser tabs

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
POC: phishing with open browser tabs

Tabnabbing?Aza Raskin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza_Raskin) a creative lead for Firefox, has a published proof-of-concept for a browser-based attack in which open pages in a browser are switched to carry out phishing attacks. His example shows a Gm... »

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Hardening Google: improving your privacy practices

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Hardening Google: improving your privacy practices

ComputerWorld is carrying a long, detailed and very good feature story by Logan Kugler “The smart paranoid's guide to using Google”Every search term or anything you have put in Google’s search engine or any of its other services remains there for... »

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Blog Engine Update

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Blog Engine Update

After a bit of turbulence, it looks like we are up and running on the new blog engine.  I am really happy about this – as it makes it a lot easier for me to customize the look and feel of the blog without having to hack things up too much. For the time being... »

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New Facebook game taking off: Pot Farm

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
New Facebook game taking off: Pot Farm

The Social Times site is running an interesting feature story and interview: “Interview: New ‘Pot Farm’ Facebook Game Promotes Organic Growth.”According to Neil Vidyarthi, the game has half million players on Facebook; six people have joined a ... »

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Free Steam game downloads should be Left 4 Dead

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Free Steam game downloads should be Left 4 Dead

Another day, another scam based on the content delivery system Steam. This time round, it’s a rather nice looking website offering up lots of free games in the form of l4d2dl(dot)com: Click to Enlarge “Download now: 100% Free”, says the big Do... »

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