Bad Nike and Republicans allow employers to demand passwords

Thoughts on a variety of issues: I. U.S. Rep. Steven King, a Republican from Ohio, believes that we should not have any laws protecting gays from discrimination, becase they can hide their sexual orientation. So, according to King's logic, it is O.K. to discriminate based...

Republicans allowing employers to demand passwords from facebook

Thoughts on a variety of issues: I. U.S. Rep. Steven King, a Republican from Ohio, believes that we should not have any laws protecting gays from discrimination, becase they can hide their sexual orientation. So, according to King's logic, it is O.K. to discriminate based...

Facebook Connect::ing You Everywhere

"Facebook Connect::ing You Everywhere December 6th, 2008 Goto comments Leave a comment By Ed Penano One simple system. One simple login. That is the aim of Facebook’s freshest creation - Facebook Connect. Facebook...

Reporters booted from conference for hacking

"With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public WiFi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room.But in a case of reporters spying on other reporters, three journalists working for the French...

Computer security consultant charged with infecting a quarter million computers

I came across this story which was published on the US Department of Justice website today and after reading the story, I had to share this with the NowPublic community.This 26 year old has been controlling OUR computers without our knowledge for sometime now.  The thing...

If your spouse spies on your web surfing...?

"Anonymous writes: I am soon to be a single mother. My soon to be ex-husband and I owned a computer store. I only have a working knowledge of computers; he was very good at it. When he left the house, he still was able to enter the PC, and I think he installed a keylogger...

Happy New Year and Dangerous Computer Infections

lthough we're all expecting to see a rise in the number of web attacks, there are only a few weak spam campaigns currently in progress with low damage potential and pretty easy to detect malicious attachments. Security company F-Secure today found another spamattack...

How To Stay Safe On The Internet

"In May 2005, the privacy software company Webroot revealed a startling statistic: At any given time, said the company's State of Spyware Report, two of every three personal computers in the United States are infected with spyware that raises your risk of identity theft. When...

Web networkers 'at risk of fraud'

"People who use internet networking sites are being warned that they could be at risk of identity theft. Credit information group Equifax said members of sites such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook may be putting too many details about themselves online. It said fraudsters could...

Microsoft Unveils Patch Package

"Windows users are being urged to install the June package of security patches from Microsoft. The security update contains six patches which close 15 vulnerabilities found in a variety of Windows programs. The patches help to shut loopholes in Internet Explorer, Outlook...

Google's new Code Search: Some of your db passwords are belong to us

"Google opened up a new search sevice called Google Code Search today. The new search allows you to search through a huge index of code that the Google search engine has crawled over the years. Being the curious beings we are, a friend of mine and I immediately started...

Geek to Live: Choose (and remember) great passwords

"Geek to Live: Choose (and remember) great passwords"