!!!! New Flashback Trojan variant found for OS X !!!
Summary: Intego has found a new variant of the Flashback Trojan, which uses unique methods for tricking Mac users. Read More…
Facebook spies on phone users’ text messages, report says
“Facebook admitted reading text messages belonging to smartphone users who downloaded the social-networking app and said that it was accessing the data as part of a trial to launch its own messaging service, The (London) Sunday Times reported.” Read More… 404 link at http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/26/facebook-spies-on-phone-users-text-messages-report-says/?test=latestnews
Qualtrics Rep Coming to Campus 2/27
Our rep, Bryce Winkleman, Director of Academic Division at Qualtrics, is coming to give a talk on 2/27 in Greene Hall. Please plan to attend this event – they would normally charge for such a talk, but since he was going to be in the […]
Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy
“Google, MSN Search, Yahoo!, AOL, and most other search engines collect and store records of your search queries. If these records are revealed to others, they can be embarrassing or even cause great harm. Would you want strangers to see searches that reference your online […]
How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google’s New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
“On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches […]
Wake Forest University gains educational benefits with WebEx.
“At its best, information technology can produce profound changes on a campus, allowing both professors and students to collaborate in ways that never existed previously. At Wake Forest University, video-based web conferencing has been such a technology.” Read More…
Google tricks Internet Explorer, foils privacy settings, Microsoft says
Google has secretly been bypassing privacy settings in Internet Explorer, Microsoft claimed Monday — mere days after a Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that the advertising giant was bypassing the privacy settings of people using the Safari browser on iPhones and computers. Read More… 404 […]
Google tracked iPhones, bypassing Apple browser privacy settings
Google and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked. Read More… (link originally went to […]
Just what is Twitter doing with your information?
Twitter has been downloading your contact information from your phone without your permission. Why is Apple allowing this? Read More…
A Windows 8 tablet offers hope as potent iPad foe
Personally, I am looking forward to a tablet that will be a real computing device. Read More…