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Tighten Up Your Facebook Security
Yesterday I posted about the real possibility of cybercriminals and spammers using Facebook’s upcoming “Graph Search” as a means to easily sort out and research potential targets. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, ever on the lookout for our privacy (even when we won’t do it ourselves), has put together an excellent guide on all the settings
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Facebook Graph Search – Cutting Bait for Phishers
Remember the announcement of Facebook’s new “Graph Search” feature? No? I don’t blame you. Until most folks can get their hands on it and see what it can do with data from people they know, it’s hard to envision how Facebook’s “innovation” is important. Security analysts, of course, eat and breath this stuff, and as
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MS Office 2013: Rent or Buy?
If you’ve been salivating at the prospect of upgrading to Microsoft Office’s latest iteration – 2013 – then your wait is officially over. Multiple SKU’s of Microsoft’s productivity platform will become officially available on Jan 29. Most importantly, Microsoft is now making the Office suite available to be “rented” via the Office365 Home Premium package.
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Update Java but skip the shovelware
Java’s recent security problems hasn’t stopped its smarmy practice of foisting the Ask-dot-com toolbar or McAfee’s Security Scanner on you every time you update Java. In case you didn’t notice, or were wondering how either of those products got installed on your computer, Java was the likely culprit. This wouldn’t be so bad, except the Java
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Gmail Windows Phone 7 Users Stranded on Feb 1
According to The Verge, Google notified Microsoft of its plans to discontinue support for ActiveSync on the Gmail platform last year, and has recently notified Microsoft that the cut-off is coming on Jan 30, despite Microsoft’s efforts to get a 6-month extension from Google. ActiveSync is widely used to sync calendar and contact data from
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If you want Windows 8, get it now!
Microsoft has announced that it will be raising the price of Windows 8 upgrades at the end of January to the full retail cost of $119 to $199 for the Pro version. The downloadable upgrade from Windows 7 to 8 is currently available for $39.99, and there is a boxed, retail version available for $69.99,
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