Tag Archives: Privacy
Third Party Apps and the Dangers
Apps the “Now Term” for Applications. These apps are also known as third-party software and it’s a big money making racket and some are scams. For example: Tap Fish is a “free” iPhone aquarium App available through iTunes: here Florida Dad Says iPhone Charges Are Deceptive Video – Article Apple has both a general Terms [...]
Full StoryUnblock Blocked Calls for Free
Sick of getting calls with blocked numbers on your cell? Here is your solution Trapcall. Trapcall will unblock and reveal the actual caller ID when a call has been blocked. No software or download needed! Trapcall is offered by New Jersey’s TelTech systems, the company behind the controversial SpoofCard Caller ID spoofing service. TrapCall is [...]
Full StorySpam Bots On The Rise Again
It didn’t take long (2 weeks) after the McColo host company was shut down for the world’s biggest spammers to get back online and start updating all their bots, a recent report by FireEye revealed. This means that all the time we’ve enjoyed with less spam is over now that the Srizbi botnet – responsible [...]
Full StoryFirefox adds Porn Mode
Private Browsing aims to help you make sure that your Web browsing activities don’t leave any trace on your own computer, noted Firefox programmer Ehsan Akhgar in a blog post. The ‘Don’t Leave A Trace’ feature, as it’s being dubbed, was seen as being especially critical for version 3.1 as Google’s Chrome browser, the IE8 [...]
Full StoryDarkmarket website in the Dark
Huge catch and good move by law enforcement! I wonder what took so long to shut this fraudulent web site down. A website that was popular with online ID fraudsters worldwide has been shut down for good thanks to coordinated action from a number of law enforcement agencies across the globe. The three-year old website, [...]
Full StoryFirefox 3.1 With Porn Mode
Firefox 3.1 is a major release with many new additions and fixes. Mozilla opens Pandora’s Box in the Mozilla Wiki that a feature will be added to the next version of Firefox, a private browsing mode. This is a mode in which writes to cache, history, and other traces of the user’s browsing activity are [...]
Full StoryParanoid About Your Surfing Habits?
It seems Big Brother is more of a voyeur than a nuisance. I am not a bit concerned if my ISP is recording what my surfing habits are, as most of the time I research and blog and check my latest Fantasy Baseball statistics. Even if I were downloading illegal music, porn or freeware, the [...]
Full StoryOnline Privacy Bill of Rights Coming
This is a step in the right direction for all internet users. It’s about time we get to approve whether or not an ISP’s can collect information about our Web-surfing habits. This will be a big win for all of us, but we won’t see this new bill passed until the next congress. Support for [...]
Full StoryHow Strong is Your Password?
You may think your password will never be hacked, but how sure are you? Do you use a password such as your date of birth, phone number, street address or initials? You may be in for a surprise as hacking passwords has become easier to obtain. It’s important to have a password that is at [...]
Full StoryKeeping Your Anonymity Online
Today we are exposed to sharing personal information with many online web sites, and this poses a threat to everyone. Some of the things you can do to avoid sharing private data or at least make it harder for someone to steal your identity. 1. Avoid identifying information in user IDs, such as a first [...]
Full StorySenate Seeks to Prevent Die Hard 5: Justin Long Anxious
The senate committee on the National Cybersecurity Initiative wants to start a National CyberSecurity Center in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security. The scenario presented by the committee in a briefing last month was not unlike the recent plot of Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard. The report detailed “plausible” scenarios including [...]
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