Following on from our detailed guide to securing your webmail, here’s a quick breakdown of how to make the most important fixes, for users of Google’s Gmail.
Tag Archives: Privacy
SSCC 171 – Are you SURE that “1234” is a bad password? [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest Chet Chat podcast for your listening pleasure… Enjoy.
Placemeter monitors streets from apartment windows: time to don a mask?
Placemeter wants window-owners to survey real-time traffic, while promising that all that data is aggregated and anonymized and won’t be stored or shared. Should we relax?
3 ways to make your Outlook.com account safer
Following up on our detailed guide to securing your webmail, here’s a quick breakdown of how to make the most important fixes for users of Microsoft’s Outlook.com (formerly known as Hotmail and, for a while, Windows Live Hotmail).
Cops swap arrested women’s photos in nude-photo ‘game’
California Highway Patrol (CHP) cops have allegedly been forwarding pics from phones belonging to women in custody to their own phones and to each other.
Adobe updates its e-reader – DRM data no longer transmitted insecurely
Adobe’s e-reader software now has “enhanced security” for uploading metadata about what you read. Or, as you might say, “no longer uploads that data insecurely”…
US Senate calls Whisper in for serious questioning on user tracking
Following serious allegations brought up by the Guardian, the US Senate has a few privacy-related questions it would like to ask the people in charge over at Whisper, the self-proclaimed “safest place on the internet”.
Facebook and Yahoo team up to block account hijackings via recycled accounts
Facebook and Yahoo have figured out how to undo the mess Yahoo made when it decided to recycle old email addresses. 
POODLEs, Sandworms and getting safe online – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
The week’s security news, turned into an entertaining lesson, turned into a 1-minute video. Enjoy…
How to kill a troll
A new Pew study confirms what we already know: online harassment is a widespread disease afflicting the internet. Ignoring trolls and hoping they’ll go away is actually quite effective, survey respondents said. Then again, how about fighting back, instead? Change is possible, be it enabled by troll-blocking software, societal shift that sees trolling evolve into a stigma, or, if all else fails, calling their mothers. 