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Red Sox Tickets Scam Email 24 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
The newest social engineering scam email hitting some inboxes is the “thank you for your Red Sox ticket order” email. In this spam, the fake order confirmation tells you that you have ordered over $20...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Page Hacked to Prove Security Hole 19 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
Palestinian security researcher Khalil Shreateh tried to warn Facebook – he really did. He did everything that he could think of to alert Facebook’s security and engineering folks to the fact that he ...
Blackberry Up for Sale? Blackberry (Formerly RIM) Mulls Over Its Options as it Hits Bottom 13 Aug 2013 | 09:41 pm
Blackberry has certainly had its share of problems. From global Blackberry outages to Yahoo making Blackberry not an option at Yahoo, to CEO Thorsten Heins rather ridiculously predicting the death of ...
Edward Snowden’s Encrypted Email Provider LavaBit Forced to Close 11 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
Lavabit, the secure email service that offered an encrypted email service, says it was forced to close rather than “commit crimes against the American people.” Lavabit was Edward Snowden’s email provi...
The Newest Tiger Direct Phishing Email Scam: Your TigerDirect.com Order Shipment Update 9 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am
A new batch of phishing emails, supposedly from TigerDirect.com, went out this week. Using social engineering to make you think that a costly order has been placed in your name, the email seeks to cre...
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Buying the Washington Post 6 Aug 2013 | 01:58 am
The Washington Post has just announced that it will be sold to Jeff Bezos, CEO and Founder of Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos is buying the Washington Post for $250 million. Said Washington Post CEO Donald Gr...
How to Enable the Free Dictation Software on Your Macbook and iMac 6 Aug 2013 | 01:37 am
If you are trying to figure out how to dictate on your Macbook Air, Macbook Pro or iMac, it’s very easy using the built-in speech to text software that is included with Mountain Lion (OS X 8 and above...
How to Get Live Skype Support 6 Aug 2013 | 12:59 am
Most large online companies now offer live support via a chat support system, and Skype is no different. Where Skype is different from many companies is that it makes its live chat help very difficult...
New California Personal Privacy Initiative Would Radically Change California Internet Privacy Law 3 Aug 2013 | 10:25 pm
If former California Senator Steve Peace and attorney Michael Thorsnes get their way, there could be a new California privacy law. The new California ballot initiative filed this month by Peace and Th...
President Obama’s Support of Amazon Angers Independent Book Sellers 3 Aug 2013 | 08:17 pm
Earlier this week President Obama paid a visit to Amazon’s immense distribution center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The president praised, among other things, Amazon’s unique Career Choice tuition assis...
