TechnologizerCES 2012
At its CES booth in the Las Vegas Convention Center’s North Hall, SecurityMan has been showing some products that don’t work. I don’t mean that as a criticism. Along with its security products, it had a whole wall of dummy …
Facebook should have done more to prevent scammers from taking advantage of people desperate to leave Timeline.
Carrier IQ and other smartphone apps allow for unprecedented surveillance. And it’s all legal.
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It had to happen; after years of science-fiction stories where heroes are recruited through video games that are actually tests of their abilities, a secret service has gone all Last Starfighter and set up a fake website designed …
Here’s a pro tip: If your password is “password,” it’s probably time to change it.
SplashData, a company that offers a “complete password management and security solution,” culled from data stolen and posted online by …
At the SysCan conference in Taiwan this week, security researcher Charlie Miller will describe a flaw he discovered in the iPhone’s web browser that allows a malicious app installed on the phone to download executable code from …
Valve says Steam service was hacked, admits user login and payment info may have been pilfered.
Men are more likely than women to be the victims of identity theft on Facebook, but nobody is safe from scammers, especially with the rise of social media on mobile devices.
“You should watch your credit card activity and statements closely.”
In the last few months, Apple’s security has been called into question more than once—not only for losing a pre-release iPhone 4S, but also for allegedly getting involved with the San Francisco Police Department’s investigation into the missing phone. It may come as no surprise, then, that Apple’s VP of Global Security recently left …
Now you can get back into your Facebook account with a little help from your friends: Facebook just announced a new feature called Trusted Friends, which uses—surprise, surprise—your social network to log you back in if you forget your password.
This is how it works: First, you pick five Facebook friends you trust. If you get …
Any Microsoft fans who were hoping to catch up with the company’s latest YouTube videos over the weekend would have been in for an unpleasant surprise: All of the videos had disappeared, replaced by five videos soliciting advertisers for the channel, along with a message that read “I DID NOTHING WRONG I SIMPLY SIGNED INTO MY ACCOUNT THAT …
