Description: Firesheep — a month-old Firefox plug-in that anyone can use to sidejack your free Wi-Fi session — is gaining attention in tech-security circles. Source: USA Today Date: Nov 10, 2010 Any time you use a free public Wi-Fi hookup — such as those you find at Starbucks and many airports — your risk of having… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Security
New electronic passports to have longer lifespans
Description: The federal government rolled out some details of its new 10-year electronic passport on Tuesday, saying the Canadians who know about the new document seem to like it. Source: Globe and Mail Date: Oct 28, 2010 “Generally Canadians are not aware of the project by the government of Canada to adopt the new passport, nor do… Read more »
LimeWire Told to Shut
Description: Popular file-sharing website LimeWire has been ordered to permanently shut down six months after a federal judge found it liable for copyright infringement on a “massive scale.” Source: WSJ.com Date: Nov 1 , 2010 “For the better part of the last decade, LimeWire and Gorton have violated the law,” the RIAA said. “The court has now… Read more »
Software-as-a-service fills market niche
Description: Not all businesses flock to cloud computing, though. What its proponents tout as its main benefit – applications and data on the internet – its critics impugn as a potential weakness Source: CBC News Date: Oct 26, 2010 Cloud computing explained | silicon.com Cash-strapped startups and small companies like cloud computing for various reasons…. Read more »
Is user data safe in the cloud?
Description: Thousands of websites and millions of pieces of private data are increasingly in one big cloud, where some of the old rules of data security are out the window. Source: Fortune Date: Sept 24, 2010 With the rise of cloud computing companies, and the ferocity with which tech’s biggest companies are snatching those firms up, it’s… Read more »
Google admits to accidentally collecting e-mails, URLs, passwords
Description: Thousands of websites and millions of pieces of private data are increasingly in one big cloud, where some of the old rules of data security are out the window. Source: CNN.Tech Date: Oct 23, 2010 Google admitted in a blog post Friday that external regulators have discovered that e-mails, URLs and passwords were collected and stored… Read more »
Report: Facebook apps sharing user info
Description: A Facebook representative said in a statement was taking steps to “dramatically limit” exposure of users’ personal information to companies. Source: Cnn.com Tech Date: Oct 18, 2010 Many of Facebook’s most popular apps are sharing personally identifiable information of their users with dozens of advertising and Internet-tracking companies, in violation of the social-networking giant’s… Read more »
Smartphone Apps Go (Truly) Viral
Description: Mobile devices are becoming bigger targets for malware creator Source: Businessweek.com Date: Oct 14, 2010 In early 2009, Citigroup (C) launched a new mobile banking application for the iPhone. It let customers check their account balances and pay bills while on the go. Thanks to a bit of sloppy code, it also could have… Read more »