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Blippy recently had a small data breach which merely underscored the risks of a growing segment of social networks which showcases your toys…
How a burglar or other thief sees Blippy:

Securing Our eCity Contributing Writer
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Jan Vrabec, my colleague in the Bratislava office, has some thoughts to get off his chest about AV vendors and  misleading results from internal test results, so I'm letting him borrow my soapbox. All yours, Jan…
Lately, we have witnessed a new trend pushed by the marketing departments of several antivirus vendors: in-house product testing. Of … Read More…

Recently we blogged here about some new Facebook privacy controls.
I decided to check and see if the new controls were rolled out. The first thing I noticed was that Facebook noticed I was not logging in from my normal location and wanted to ask me a few “security questions”. Hmmm, ok. The first security question … Read More…

There was a bit of a stir today around a British scientist, Dr. Mark Gasson. In the BBC article Dr. Gasson was touted as the “First Human ‘Infected With a Computer Virus’”. I let this one stew around for a few seconds and I have to say that this isn’t what it’s cracked up to … Read More…

It’s no secret that rapid response to a cybercrime such as a banking trojan transfer of funds will help your bank recover the funds. The gap has traditionally been in the ‘knowing what to do about it’.  The savior of 21st century banking may well come down to user-modifiable rapid SMS text alerts and … Read More…

Mashable reports a halt to the insanity over privacy may be only a day away…

On Sunday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised simplified privacy settings “in coming weeks.” It now looks like that timetable has been bumped up, with an executive at the social network revealing at an event in New York that new features … Read More…

I’m not always in alignment with Jeffrey Carr’s point of view but in this he is spot on. Succinct and to the point, Jeffrey Carr addresses cybercrime, cyberwarfare rules of engagement and forecasts the United States’ rapid decline:

Should these trends continue unabated, we will have no one to blame but ourselves as the economical and … Read More…

In case you’re looking for historical data within Twitter, this might help you:

Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service?  Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress. That’s right.  Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be … Read More…

So, this is the first blog entry I have ever written and posted from an airplane. Until the end of July, Alaska airlines has free wi-fi on some of their flights. Not all of the planes are wi-fi enabled.
The provider is called GoGo. One of the first things I noticed is that even though the … Read More…

Brian Krebs, source of a lot of key research on the banking trojan focus on small to medium sized business, has reported that cyber-vigilantes have rattled the cage of a major carder site by posting their member’s passwords:

Ironically, the anonymous authors of the e-zine said they were able to compromise the criminal forum because its … Read More…