Here is a nice utility that will automatically check all your facebook privacy settings and tell you which ones need to be examined and possibly changed. It is simple to use and only requires that you be open to your privacy settings page and add a bookmark. Once thats accomplished you simply hit the bookmark and let it go to work and tell you where you have possible insecurities.
Google has just released a new version (ver.5) of their ever increasingly popular Chrome browser. From the Google Chrome blog:
Improved New Tab Page:
The most requested feature from users was the ability to remove
thumbnails from the New
Tab page.
Now you can finally hide that embarrassing gossip blog from the
Most Visited section.
Full Screen Mode:
If you've ever given a presentation or watched a large video using
Google Chrome, you might have wished you could use every last pixel
on your screen for the content. Now you can hide the title bar and
the rest of the browser window by hitting F11 or selecting the
option in the Tools menu.
Form Autofill:
Filling out your information in forms over and over again can be
tedious. Form
autofill helps
by showing information you've previously entered into the same form
fields automatically. If at any point ...
This past weekend saw a wide area infection from a spam posting that encouraged users to view a video. I've warned users in the past to be VERY wary of any video's that look suspicious such as these. One of the best applications you can install to help prevent these posts from hitting your wall is defensio.com. It will block these posts as well as malicious content included in facebook e-mails. I highly recommend every facebook user take the precaution of installing this application. Details on the adware infection can be found:
New research has proven that your cellphone is a walking ID billboard for hackers. Actually this isn't something that can be patched. It's built in to the network as features. I listened to Steve Gibson explain this this afternoon and was astonished at what he reported. You can listen to the explanation yourself here: Security Now his comments on the vulnerability start at the 14:17
The story he refers to can be read here:
Here is a little excerpt:
"A lot of this isn't terribly secret, but it's not that well-known," Bailey said. "To find information on users, that was our goal. These pieces of information come from all over. The caller ID database provides a lot of information about people and companies. One thing we found is that we could go through the provider network in a ...
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