by Roberta | Dec 1, 2012 | Cybersecurity
This article discusses the remarkable fact that NASA can’t protect its data. A NASA laptop was stolen, and because the hard drive was not encrypted, multitudes of employees’ data was breached, making them vulnerable to identity theft. A spokesperson for...
by Roberta | Dec 1, 2012 | News
If you are having trouble downloading your gmail into Outlook or another mail program, or on your smartphone, it may be a problem on Google’s end: According to the “known issues” page on Google’s web site: We are aware of an issue where users...
by Roberta | Nov 29, 2012 | News
Here’s a good article from LifeHacker. Back in June Facebook changed all Facebook account holder’s email addresses to “(your profile name)@facebook.com”. They did this because, since 2010 when they created the Facebook email system, no one has...
by Roberta | Nov 26, 2012 | News
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by Roberta | Nov 24, 2012 | News
From the NY Times: MS Disables Gadgets for Security Reasons