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New California Law Keeps Your Facebook (Slightly More) Private
The state of California just signed into law a ban on employers and universities requiring employees and applicants grant them access to their social media accounts (e.g. Facebook or Twitter). As surprising as this may seem, this was actually a thing for awhile. That is, until the internet started a ferocious publicity storm and names
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Another Day, Another Zero-day Vulnerability
Threatpost has reported on a new zero-day vulnerability that is affecting the Oracle Java plugin used in all popular web browsers, and this time, all operating systems, including Apple’s OS X which is typically excluded from most security exploits. So far, the white hats are ahead of the game on this one, having detected and
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Zero-Day IE Vulnerability Patched by MS
In a rare, out-of-band release, Microsoft released an update on Sept 21 that patched the much bally-hooed vulnerability that affected all versions of its browser as far back as IE 6. This security flaw was significant enough to warrant the German government recommend to its citizens that they use another browser until MS could address
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Make Yourself Less Hackable
Either stop what you are doing and read this article from PC World, or mark it for later and keep reading this story, because this may be the most important thing you do this month. Easily searchable personal information available on the web plus easy-to-guess passwords can lead to identity theft. Not worried about that? You should
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New Apple Maps Needs Better Directions
It would seem that Apple’s new Maps application introduced with iOS 6 on Sept 19 has had a bit of a rough start. As one might expect, the technology media rakes in the clicks with glee when the industry’s golden child stumbles, and reports are already coming in of the new app’s misguided attempts at
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Startup Bromium Imagines a World Without Malware
Bromium, a new startup by the same braintrust that founded Xen – a popular virtualization platform now owned by industry giant Citrix – is promising their new product, “vSentry” will return computer users to the heady days of pre-virus computing. The basic idea behind this product is basically a combination of virtualization and hardware/software compartmentalization
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