You likely have usernames and passwords all over the ‘net. For your email, Facebook, your online bank – everywhere! There have been numerous security breaches online as of late. One of the more recent ones was as an online service I use daily, called Evernote. In this news story, hackers compromised Evernote servers a few weeks…
I’m a Mac user, much like many of my digital native friends. There are a lot of stories swirling around online about the Flashback Trojan. There are many Macs that are infected, as many as 600,000 by some estimates. Let’s take a second to make sure your Mac isn’t one of the more than half…
A story came out last week during the Where 2.0 conference hosted by O’Reilly that, unbeknownst to most iPhone owners, that iOS tracks your location and keeps this valuable information in a file. The unencrypted file is then housed on the computer in which you back your phone up to and can be utilized to…
In the last 6 or so months, we’ve been shown the importance of being safe while surfing the web. A Firefox plugin called Firesheep debuted last year that showed us how easy it is to assume the identity of anyone signed into a website while surfing on an unsecured website. That is, if you’re signed…