are2.com, a site dedicated to environmental awareness, petitioning, and charitable donation with more than 17 million members has been hacked, according to a message from the company Friday morning.

Hacked! Environmental activism site Care2, users exposed

Posted: December 31st, 2011 under Privacy, Security.
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A new easy and free app has been released to let you know.

BitDefender IQ Finder

Posted: December 8th, 2011 under Android, Operating Systems, Privacy, Security, Uncategorized.
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If you have any private photos on Facebook that you really don’t want out there, consider this story your fair warning to delete them. A flaw in the social networking site’s reporting mechanism allows users to peer into content that is otherwise marked "private". Now would be a good time to remove that pic of drunken you mooning the boss.

Facebook flaw briefly exposes private photos, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s

Posted: December 6th, 2011 under Facebook, Internet, Privacy, Security.
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AVG, a family of anti-virus and internet security software for various platforms, had released the very first antivirus suite for Windows Phone 7. The suite included an antivirus, anti-malware, and anti-phishing tools. Today, reports are indicating that this "antivirus" app might be more dangerous than expected.

WP7 AVG antivirus app pulled from Marketplace, may be spyware | WinBeta

Posted: September 10th, 2011 under Privacy, Security, Software.
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The Huffington Post just came out with a list of things not to post on Facebook. The list includes: your birth date and place of birth, trips away from home, your phone number, or less obviously– your child’s name.

You can always play in the safe zone with Facebook’s “Friends Only” feature but how many people have you added as a friend that you don’t exactly know? I’ve been friends with a mysterious Syrian named Simo for years now.

What Not to Share on Facebook | Hubze Blog

Posted: September 9th, 2011 under Facebook, Internet, Privacy, Security.
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There was a time long, long ago when Download.com was the place I went for software. It’s been years, however, as the site repeatedly showed signs of devolving into a site every bit as bothersome as the many third-tier software repositories that hide genuine links below clever-placed advertisements and bundle toolbars with their “certified” local downloads.

Download.com wraps downloads in bloatware, lies about motivations | ExtremeTech

Posted: August 23rd, 2011 under Internet, Privacy, Security, Software.
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Facebook is making a sweeping set of changes to its privacy and sharing policies that will give users much more control over the information they share and who they share it with.

Facebook Rolls Out Major, Sweeping Privacy Changes

Posted: August 23rd, 2011 under Facebook, Privacy.
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