by Joseph Forbes | Mar 24, 2013 | Blog Entry
from the let’s-track-ann-from-account-services dept. itwbennett writes “Do you know what data the 1300+ tracking companies have on you? Privacy blogger Dan Tynan didn’t until he had had enough of being stalked by grandpa-friendly Jitterbug phone ads....
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 23, 2013 | Blog Entry
Apple has added two-factor authentication to iCloud and everything else connected to your Apple ID. This adds a nice boost to security for the service. Here’s how to set it up. Two-factor authentication is an easy way to secure your accounts and essentially...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 23, 2013 | HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the long-sloping-path-down dept. A new trojan specifically for Macs has been discovered that installs an adware plugin. The malware attempts to monetize its attack by injecting ads into Chrome, Firefox, and Safari (the most popular browsers on Apple’s...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 23, 2013 | DATA, LAW, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, POLITICAL, TECHNOLOGY
from the still-hungover-from-sopa dept. Slashdotters may remember the launch of the Internet Defense League, a network for website owners that would allow for the replication of a media campaign similar to the one that took down SOPA. Now it plans to spring into...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, TECHNOLOGY
from the and-many-moore dept. Intel’s Pentium processor was launched 20 years ago today, a move that led to the firm becoming the dominant supplier of computer chips across the globe. This article has some original iComp benchmark scores, rating the 66MHz...
