When the news broke about Rep Weiner’s Twitter account being hacked, I thought I would be writing a post about how to protect your social networking account from being hacked. A few days pass and suddenly, as a parent, I am reacting to this whole story unfolding in a way that perhaps many other parents Read more…
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Sometimes you can’t trust every link on your Twitter timeline. Yesterday, security researcher Stefan Esser tweeted the following: Esser is the researcher who developed the Antid0te ASLR utility for jailbroken iPhones. If he helps to protect jailbroken iPhones, why would he want to infect me? If I didn’t deal with malware on a regular basis, I Read more…
For the past five years, Cyber Monday has been the marketing term for the Monday immediately following Black Friday. It is now one of the biggest online shopping days of the year, with 77% of online retailers reporting substantially increased sales. Scammers seek to take advantage of seasonal opportunities like Cyber Monday, so beware of Read more…
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