By Phil Villarreal on January 12, 2010 10:30 AM
 
In an interview with an unnamed Facebook employee, the Rumpus revealed some disconcerting revelations about the privacy, or lack thereof, in the social network. The most eye-popping of these is that Facebook keeps track of the profiles you click on the most.

Summarized in a post on The Cleveland Leader, here are some of the top pieces of info from the story:
http://consumerist.com/2010/01/anonymous-facebook-employe-says-network-keeps-track-of-whom-you-stalk-most.html

Posted: January 12th, 2010 under Internet, Security.
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Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 10:04 am

A word of warning to those of you who rely on hardware-based encrypted USB flash drives. Security firm SySS has reportedly cracked the AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption used on flash drives manufactured by Kingston, SanDisk and Verbatim.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=6655&tag=nl.e589

Posted: January 7th, 2010 under Computers, Security.
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Happy New Year everyone!! Please drink responsibly and be safe! If you see a drunk driver, please call 9-1-1 to report them.

Posted: January 1st, 2010 under BTS News.
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Beacon Technology Solutions LLC and Staff would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!

Posted: December 25th, 2009 under BTS News.
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Date: December 19th, 2009
Author: Debra Littlejohn Shinder

If it seems like you’re getting hit with more email scams than ever, you’re right. Deb Shinder explains what you and your users should watch out for to avoid being duped.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1227&tag=nl.e101

Posted: December 23rd, 2009 under Computers, Internet, Security.
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Are you one of the 350 million Facebook users? I’m a big fan of Facebook and like many I connect daily to see what my friends are doing and to share photos. As a security professional I am very careful about what I post and what information I allow to be shared. In that respect I’m unique…

http://billpstudios.blogspot.com/2009/12/who-gets-your-personal-information-on.html

Posted: December 6th, 2009 under In The News, Internet, Security.
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Microsoft has released a tool to law enforcement that helps get around the encryption provided by the company’s own BitLocker software, distributed in Windows Vista.
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3781

Posted: November 9th, 2009 under In The News, Security, Windows 7, Windows Vista.
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AP IMPACT: PC owners caught with child porn loaded on their computers _ by a computer virus
By JORDAN ROBERTSON AP Technology Writer
November 8, 2009 (AP)
The Associated Press

Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9028516

Posted: November 8th, 2009 under Computers, In The News, Internet, Security.
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Toys R Us sells a “Summer Day and Night Video Monitor” that can be used to spy on the baby next door, according to a class action in Cook County Court. An Illinois man says he and his neighbor both bought one of the video baby monitors and found out they could each see and hear the other’s baby.
www.courthousenews.com/2009/11/03/Baby_Video_Monitor_Lets_Neighbors_Snoop_On_One_Another_Class_Claims.htm

Posted: November 3rd, 2009 under In The News, Security.
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Trend Micro threat analysts found spammed messages that pretend to be a letter coming from the “boss”. It bears the subject “get back to my office for more details” and instructs users to read the attached ZIP file, which contains a letter. The ZIP attachment is, of course, not a letter but an .EXE file (info.exe) detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_CUTWAIL.GT.

Read more: http://blog.trendmicro.com/malware-conceals-itself-as-bosss-letter/#ixzz0Vkvmeie4

Posted: November 2nd, 2009 under Computers, In The News, Internet, Security.
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