Well, it was bound to happen, and although these guys have been caught, it is probably still happening elsewhere.  A recent PC World article describes a gang of thieves utilizing Facebook Places, and a Twitter aggregator, to identify homes with no occupant. Because, the owner had just geo tagged himself elsewhere.  Police in Nashua, New [...]

According to a Blog post over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook has once again thrown privacy settings for a loop: Today, Facebook removed its users’ ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of users’ profiles, "including your current city, hometown, education and work, and likes and interests" [...]

A colleague of mine recently suggested I search for my own name on www.spokeo.com. I had heard of Spokeo before, but never really given it any thought. However, I did the search and was instantly amazed at how much information was returned. I was also amazed at just how wrong the information was. It seems [...]

Good network security is done with multiple layers of protection. Even though you may think your computer is secure because you keep it up to date with the latest security patches and virus signatures, zero day exploits come out all the time (for which there are no patches until, quite often, a much later date). [...]

With Microsoft regularly releasing patches on the first Tuesday of every month, affectionately known as “Patch Tuesday,” it can be difficult to run every patch through proper testing scenarios. This is especially true for Government IT these days where many IT shops are required to patch within 48 hours of release. Even in the commercial [...]