Privacy Advocates Sue DHS for Big Bro Fake ‘Friends’ Monitoring Social Media
Yes, Virginia, Big Brother is watching you in social media and storing those “naughty” tweets, posts and comments. After those hot keyword terms put you on the naughty list, unlike Santa’s list, it’s not a redo in a year . . . that info will be stored for five years. The EFF previously warned Big [...]
Web of Deceit: Misinformation and Manipulation in the Age of Social Media
Web of Deceit: Misinformation and Manipulation in the Age of Social Media
Big media and ISPs form alliance to crackdown on IP pirates
John P. Mello, Jr. Top Priority Sector: cyber_security Image Caption: O’Leary: piratessteal jobs Major Internet Service Providers and organizations representing the makers of movies and distributors of music announced on July 7 that they had inked a pact creating a warning system that they hope will strangle the audience for pirated entertainment. Homepage position: 10 [...]
Phishing scams find ‘friend’ in social media – Times Union
Promises of a free iPad or the chance to see who’s viewed your Facebook profile tempt you from your Facebook wall. Friends shared these offers with you, or so it seems, making you think “they must be legit,” right? Wrong. These are viruses — worms that …
Anybody else notice how Virgin Media security slows your computer down considerably?
Is there free security services that doesn’t slow down your computer?
The AWS Outage: The Cloud’s Shining Moment (George Reese/O’Reilly Media)
George Reese / O’Reilly Media:The AWS Outage: The Cloud’s Shining Moment — So many cloud pundits are piling on to the misfortunes of Amazon Web Services this week as a response to the massive failures in the AWS Virginia region. If you think this week exposed weakness in the cloud, you don’t get it …
When Media Giants Attack! Cease-and-Desist Letter to News Reader Zite Claims All Kinds of Copyright Damage (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:When Media Giants Attack! Cease-and-Desist Letter to News Reader Zite Claims All Kinds of Copyright Damage — A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app, today. — The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time …
What is the best internet security suite for Windows XP Media Center edition?
I just put McAfee on my Media Center machine and this thing crashes more often than a drunk driver. I cannot do a thing on this computer now. Seems like a good waste of 49.99. Is it that Media Center has a tough time with anti-virus software, or that McAfee has a lot of bugs [...]
HP research shows mainstream media drive Twitter ‘trends’ to a surprising degree (Ethan Bauley/Data Central)
Ethan Bauley / Data Central:HP research shows mainstream media drive Twitter ‘trends’ to a surprising degree — Who gets to determine the big topics of conversation on social media? And how do they do it? Looking to find out, HP researchers recently examined how popular subjects get to be listed among the top ‘trending’ topics [...]
RealNetworks Unveils Personal Media Service (Digits)
Digits:RealNetworks Unveils Personal Media Service — Many consumers now divide their time between work and personal computers, tablets and smartphones. One of their biggest headaches is trying to keep track of all the content stored on the various devices. — RealNetworks believes it has a solution.
