Google’s Gmail is already using https:// (secure web page technology) and has been working on encrypting all data it moves between data centers since last summer. Now, with the revelation of NSA’s spying on U.S. and citizens of other countries, both Google and Yahoo are stepping up their efforts to make sure all data in transit is secure… Read More »
You can bet when something becomes popular, some nefarious scumbag is going to exploit it. So it was with Windows, and so it is becoming with the wildly popular Android OS which powers tablets and smartphones — and in a slightly altered form (Chrome OS) laptops and Chromebooks. The cyber-criminals will exploit whatever is popular. And if you… Read More »
It’s not a newsflash: A lot of people love Facebook, and I wanted to make sure that if you’re one of them, you take care of your privacy when you’re using Facebook. There are a lot of things going on that you’re probably not aware of, for instance over 600,000 Facebook logins (passwords and user names) are stolen… Read More »
How to get Malware – quickly and easily I was browsing a computer tech news site when, out of nowhere, without clicking anything, a page opened displaying the above notification. It looks a lot like Adobe Flash Player installer. Of course, I was not on a page requiring any media player (and even if I was I would… Read More »
The edge of the abyss: exposing the NSA’s all-seeing machine “I know the capability that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the… Read More »
A reader cites Leo who tells readers to keep on keeping on with MSE Hi TC and EB , Reference your recent articles slamming Microsoft Security Essentials — you might like to comment on the attached from Leo Notenboom who ,I am sure you know ,is well respected in the computer industry and write’s a weekly newsletter which… Read More »