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Two Million Stolen Accounts Trustwave security researchers announced that they have discovered a criminally controlled web server that contains nearly two million stolen account usernames and password. Many popular sites, such Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google and Yahoo, were affected. Trustwave reported the following number of […]
Twitter Changes Direct Messaging, Again It used to be that in order to someone a direct message (DM) on Twitter, you had to follow each other. Then, a while back, Twitter did away with that requirement and, basically, you could send a DM to anyone
YouTube + Google+ = Trouble for Google In an exceedingly unpopular move, Google is requiring YouTube commenters to sign in with their Google+ account in order to comment on a video. Officially, this is Google’s attempt to try to control the oftentimes ‘not nice’ or
The BlackBerry Saga Continues Last week, I reported that former Apple CEO John Sculley was considering purchasing BlackBerry. At this point, forget John Sculley or anybody else, for that matter. BlackBerry announced on November 4th that it was abandoning the idea of selling the company and fired its
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday was October 8th. Microsoft released a total of eight bulletins, four of which were deemed ‘Critical.’ One of the critical patches was to patch a security exploit that was present in all versions of Internet Explorer. In addition
Kind of a slow week techwise… Yahoo Bests Google Chalk one up for Yahoo. comScore announced this week that, for the first time since May of 2011, Yahoo! had more of its sites visited in the U.S. than Google. Yahoo had 196.6 million visitors to
I am not a heavy user of social networking by any means. I would check Facebook and Twitter a few times a day, LinkedIn not even weekly and use FourSquare rarely. It was just too much of a pain to use four different apps. Also,
LinkedIn and other professional networking sites encourage you to get noticed I’ve already spent time explaining the importance of protecting yourself on social networks. We’ve been through ways to setup a safe and secure Facebook account as well as how to create a private Twitter
Gone Social: exposure is a good thing on professional social networks Read More »
Quick! Go check your to see if your Facebook dashboard looks like the one on the left or the one on the right. If you have the new new “lock and lines” icon next to the “home” button on your facebook dashboard, then you’ve already
Gone Social: Facebook rolls out privacy shortcuts Read More »
Things change quickly in social media, and it’s easy for several generations of changes to happen even between logins. Back at the beginning of the summer, I told you how to setup a safe and secure Facebook profile, and in that post, I talked
Gone Social: Staying up to date with Facebook’s latest social engineering trickery Read More »
(It’s been a few weeks since the last time you heard from me. I hope you didn’t miss our regular Gone Social updates too much–I know I’ve missed them. As a kind of full disclosure to this post / welcome back / explanation for my
I consider myself someone who stays fairly current with the internet and social networking and all of that stuff. After all, I send most of every day on both. But when Dave and I attended an Anatomy of a Malware Attack presentation by Sophos security
So I’ve been running the Gone Social articles for a little while now, and some of you have left comments, sent me emails, and gotten in contact with me to ask me questions or give me suggestions about the information I’ve been posting. Some people
Notice anything different today? Facebook hopes you don’t! Facebook made a change today with no notice to its’ users. On the surface the change may seem insignificant, at least I’m sure Facebook thinks so, but the repercussions could be serious – at least seriously change
