Facebook policy changes – does the ‘crowd’ really have a seat at the table?

June 19, 2012

You may have heard that the organization known as europe-v-facebook found that a little-know provision in Facebook’s privacy and user rights policies allowed a vote on proposed changes to be forced if over 7,000 respondents were interested and submitted comments to that effect. When europe-v-facebook publicized this, users swarmed to show support and get their … More Facebook policy changes – does the ‘crowd’ really have a seat at the table?

Guarding against password reset attacks with pen and paper

June 11, 2012

With the recent announcements of password breaches at LinkedIn, and warnings from Google about state-sponsored attacks on Gmail accounts, it seems like a good idea now to review some password security basics.  In this blog post, we’re going to take a look at a rather low-tech solution to a decidedly high-tech problem:  How to guard … More Guarding against password reset attacks with pen and paper

DNSChanger ‘temporary’ DNS servers go dark soon: is your computer really fixed?

June 6, 2012

DNSChanger, a piece of malware that re-routed vast swaths of Internet traffic through rogue DNS servers after users became infected, was shut down by the FBI late last year. But simply shutting down the servers altogether would have ‘broken’ many hundreds of thousands of computers still infected–rendering it difficult for them to get help via … More DNSChanger ‘temporary’ DNS servers go dark soon: is your computer really fixed?