by Joseph Forbes | Mar 5, 2013 | Blog Entry
Facebook is using you, whether you know it or not. Sometimes it’s obvious: you like a page, you click share, Facebook benefits. Other times, you have no clue until a friend asks you about a photo they saw that you liked. The unfortunate side-effect to all of...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 5, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technicals
from the embrace-the-slack dept. Microsoft has published an explanation of the failure of Windows Azure earlier this month. Users of the Azure storage saw that an SSL certificate had expired. Microsoft’s explanation says that the certificate had in fact been...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 5, 2013 | Blog Entry, Data Recovery, HACKING, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technicals
from the burrs-on-the-heel-of-the-foot-would-be-mercy dept. It appears that two weeks ago my email address got into the wrong database. Since that time there have been continuing attempts to access my accounts and create new accounts in my name. I have received emails...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technical Support
from the disk-write-error dept. A Stanford comp-sci student has found a serious bug in Chromium, Safari, Opera, and MSIE. Feross Aboukhadijeh has demonstrated that these browsers allow unbounded local storage. ‘The HTML5 Web Storage standard was developed to...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
At RSA Conference, security execs say using big data for security may be a future issue but it’s a little much right now “I don’t call it Big Data,” I call it garbage data,” said Jerry Sto. Tomas, director of global information security...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 3, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, LAW, MONEY
from the horse-head-in-your-bed dept. The new Copyright Alert System, a.k.a. the ‘Six Strikes’ policy, went into effect on Monday. Comcast and Verizon activated it today. Ars Technica asked them and other participating ISPs to see the copyright alerts that...
