Tech Tips From a NYC System Administrator
I’m surprised this story did not get more traction. It appears ACLU gives it’s donor data to Facebook so that Facebook could target more users that are like the existing donors. I mean it makes sense from a marketing perspective. I’ve given to ACLU…and I don’t like Facebook. I wish I had known… Details: In the…
According to Business Insider, looks like 533 MILLION users from about 106 countries had their personal data from 2019 posted onto the dark web. The data was scraped from Facebook before they applied a security patch back in 2019. The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including…
I came across a situation where a vendor wanted logs files from a server at around 2am in the morning to troubleshoot why an application wasn’t sending a specific email at that time. Problem was, I wasn’t planning on being up at that early in the morning to grab log files and I didn’t know…
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Problem: Internet Explorer 8 won’t remember the user’s password information for a website Symptoms: User starts IE8, types in “salesforce” in the address bar, which automatically brings him to to Salesforce.com. He clicks on the Login link, enters his Username and Password, checks off the box that says “Remember User Name”, and goes about his…
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News to watch – Can you be compelled by authorities to give up your encryption keys, passphrases, or passwords? Federal prosecutors want a judge to order a Colorado woman to provide the password to decrypt her laptop, which the government seized with a search warrant. With backup from digital rights groups, the woman is fighting…
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There’s news out that Verizon Wireless wants to charge me $2 every time I pay my bill online using the single pay option. That means, when I get my bill, I’ll be charged a “convienence fee” of $2 for going online and paying on their website. However’ if I pay by check, through the mail,…
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Per Gizmodo – Spyware on every Android (and possibly Blackberry and Nokia) phone out there… If you have any decently modern Android phone, everything you do is being recorded by hidden software lurking inside… Carrier IQ’s software is installed in your phone at the deepest level. You don’t know it’s there. You are never warned…
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Update: Netflix does a rewind! Abandons the Qwikster plan… Got an email from, Netflix. They’re changing their DVD service name to “Qwikster”? Really? But the same lousy pricing? Here’s the email: Dear xxxx, I messed up. I owe you an explanation. It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members…
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Got a personal website hosted on Godaddy that all of a sudden started giving me 500 Internal Server Error: I have the domain and hosting at Godaddy – Economy Linux hosting. I use WordPress as the front end. Not the WordPress setup they offer, but I uploaded my own WordPress files, setup a MySQL db,…
Another case for making it mandatory to have peoples personal info stored in an encrypted database: The personal records of some 3.5 million Texans were inadvertently exposed after they were placed on a state computer server that was accessible to the public for about a year, state officials said on Monday. State Comptroller Susan Combs…
