Most of us are familiar with the terms “software” and “hardware”. Over the years, many other “ware” words have been coined to describe the myriad applications available today.
Posts Tagged ‘security’
Cleaning files from hard drives
Most of us realize that merely deleting a file doesn’t really remove it from the hard drive or other storage media it resides on. (For some background on this issue see a post I wrote a while back.)
Saudis join ‘Berry ban
There has been a lot of press over the latest countries that don’t want Blackberries in their country unless they can get access to monitor user communications. See, for example, the Washington Post, Techdirt, Engadget.
Test your ID theft risk
The Canadian Privacy Commissioner posted a link to a short test to see how you fare in minimizing the risk of ID theft that is on a website managed by the Australian Privacy Commissioner.
This was created for Privacy Awareness Week, which is an annual promotion by the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) forum which includes the Privacy Commissioners of British Columbia and Canada.
Hacker selling Facebook accounts
GetConnected - May 3rd, 2010
Facebook is taking action on the accounts of users who have been victim to the cyberattacks by a Russian hacker. The hacker calls himself Kirllos, and has posted an ad to sell account details of 1.5 million Facebook users — both usernames and passwords.
