In this hard economy, one can never be too careful about what they put on the web, and this holds especially true for (would-be) employees.
Here’s a question for you to ponder: Can employers, potential or not, ask you to divulge your Facebook profile login information?
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I’m relatively new to the whole cryptography and computing security scene and it has always intrigued me on how so many people with their Macbooks, Netbooks, iPhones, external hard drives, and other mobile devices are so vulnerable to malicious attacks from outsiders. There has always been an age-old saying in the IT business: PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair).
While most of the problems that IT managers and security professionals deal with stem from the inability of users to practice some common sense when browsing the web, those types of problems are easy to rectify.
However, there is very little IT managers and security professionals can do about physical theft, such as a burglaries and corporate espionage. Thankfully, there is a way for ordinary people like you and me to protect your sensitive data from physical theft.
As Twitter continues to grow in popularity, the number of hacked accounts multiplies. Whether due to a weak password or following a malicious link from a tweet or email, it even more difficult than ever before for users to keep maintain the security if their privacy online.
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Everyone’s favorite cloud storage service, Dropbox, has taken some beatings lately with some lapses in security and privacy changes. On Monday, it was revealed that a code update introduced a bug into the system for over four hours that allowed users to login to any account using any password. Now, as reported by Techcrunch, the findings from the investigation by the Dropbox team has revealed that fewer than 100 accounts were affected during the breach.
Details have emerged about the recent Citigroup hack in which over 200,000 accounts were compromised. Basically, after the hackers log in as a credit card customer, they changed a number in the address bar URL that identified each customer’s account (ie, citigroup.com/user/1234). From there, they ran an automated script thousands of times that allowed them to infiltrate and collect the private information of customers.
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According to a recent eWeek.com article, Daniel Amitay, the developer of the iPhone app Big Brother Camera Security, discovered that a fascinating 14.4 percent of its users have one of ten common four-digit PIN codes.
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If you enjoy browsing Facebook or Twitter at your favorite Starbucks, things aren’t looking optimistic for you.
Two days ago, freelance web application and software developer Eric Butler released a Firefox extension called Firesheep that lets anyone(yes, even your neighbor’s cat), become an amateur hacker with a simple click of a button. Now, with nearly 300,000 downloads to date and growing, Firesheep is proving to be the catalyst we need for safer web browsing.