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Quick Guide: Setting Your Facebook Privacy Options
With more and more consumers experiencing identity theft because of hackers and sloppy security on commercial websites, Internet users need to also take care to shore up their privacy on social networking sites, especially the biggest fish in the online pond – Facebook. Here’s some things you can do to protect your Facebook privacy. Look up at the top right of your Facebook Page. Way up there at the top. Look closely. Facebook could sure make that button easier. It looks like a lock and three bars. See the photo at the right. If you click that little lock , the first thing you;ll see is something called “Privacy Checkup.” Now it…
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Seriously people: Maybe it’s time you switched to Mac or Linux
Microsoft sucks. How many times have we heard people say that? Well, they’re saying it again even louder now after a major security flaw has been announced in the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser. Is this deja vu or just a bad nightmare? Seriously, how many of these security breaches have we had from Microsoft? This time, no less than The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has advised computer users to abandon Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes a security flaw that hackers have used to launch attacks. So has the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team and its UK counterpart, suggesting that some IE users may want to…
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Google Glass available to anyone in U.S. for one day only April 15
Save your money. That’s my advice. As one who shelled out $1,500 to be part of the Google Glass Explorer program for its controversial wearable tech glasses, I can say that once the novelty wears off, Glass just isn’t that exciting or useful. That said, if you can’t stand being out of the loop, Google has announced that on April 15, for one day only, it will make Glass available to anyone in the U.S. Here’s their official announcement: “Any adult in the US can become an Explorer by visiting our site and purchasing Glass for $1500 + tax – and it now comes with your favorite shade or frame,…
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What you need to know about Heartbleed
Here we go. Another online security alert, reports of widespread personal information vulnerability, dire warnings, alleged security breaches at the biggest websites around and a general the-sky-is-warning panic by the Media. It’s all about something called the Heartbleed bug, a wide-reaching security vulnerability in the SSL (Secure Socket Library) computer code used to secure something like 20% – or one in five – of the websites on the Internet. The sites with SSL start with https://, not the normal http://. Not all https:// sites are or were vulnerable. But all sites that were do start with the https:// prefix. According to CNET, an attacker can exploit Heartbleed to essentially “get copies…
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The end of Windows XP: What it means
Microsoft has announced that, effective April 8, 2014, it will no longer support Windows XP. But what, exactly, does that mean? First of all, it means if you have it and use it, it will still work. But for how long, who knows? That’s because Windows will no longer provide security updates and hackers, who are surely lying in wait out there in cyberspace, will be able to exploit the 12-year-old operating system with no worries of Microsoft every coming along behind them and shutting the doors they blast in to the rickety old application. That’s why Microsoft is crying wolf. “It is very important that customers and partners migrate…
