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…
Photo by Brady Rogers on Unsplash Here is another “PayPal” email. This one purports to be “looking out” for me. All the links in the email (including the “change your password” and “Help & Contact” lead to https://vk.cc/azxnUK. Also note the actual email address (“closerdesign.co”), that has nothing to do with PayPal. Notice how they…
Just a followup to my Medium “Don’t Click On That Link!” Post, here’s an example of a “PayPal” email recently received that is clearly bogus: At first glance, the email looks legitimate. It comes with the official PayPal logo, has the same format as a typical email from PayPal. Also cites a legitimate…
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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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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I’ve written about ID theft before. Never thought I’d experience it, first hand. But I guess it’s bound to happen to everyone, the way they’re hacking nowadays. Found out yesterday, some wonderful slime ball walked into an Apple Store last week, used my SS# and driver’s license# to open a couple of AT&T Mobile Wireless…
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…
By now, you may have heard of the security breach at mass email marketing company Epsilon, where the names and email addresses of thousands, if not millions, of people have been stolen. The current list of companies include: 1-800-Flowers AbeBooks Ameriprise Financial Barclays Bank Best Buy Brookstone Citibank Disney Destinations Hilton Worldwide JP Morgan Chase…
I have to say, if this is true, it’s pretty impressive in a Big Brother sort of way. Basically, China is monitoring your phone calls. If you say a naughty word like “protest”, your call will be dropped. From the New York Times: If anyone wonders whether the Chinese government has tightened its grip on…
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