Facebook Suspends Users Who Share Passwords with Employers
As you may be aware, Facebook has been taking a stand against employers who request prospective and actual employees to reveal their Facebook password. In an announcement from Erin Egan, the Chief Privacy Officer at Facebook, the company took a stand against such practices and warned its users never to share their password.
Facebook failed to stop the employers, so now, could Facebook be going after the actual employees instead of the employers?
Hackers vs. Adobe – Security [Infographic]
Do you use Adobe products? If you use PDF files or view Flash videos, there’s a very good chance you do.
Adobe Reader is a very popular PDF reader that is heavily used because it is created by the same company that created PDF files. Whenever a site distributes a PDF file, there’s usually going …
Secure and Speed Up Your Website with CloudFlare Ninjas
Do you own a website? Are you having trouble dealing with spam? During times of high traffic, is your server being knocked offline?
I would like to introduce Max and Rose, two ninjas from CloudFlare that have been protecting the TechAirlines website since early July 2010.
So what exactly am I talking about? CloudFlare is …
Mozilla Blocks Older Versions of Java Deployment Toolkit
Plugins are a major cause of browser security problems due to vulnerabilities especially with older versions. Just recently, a critical security vulnerability has been uncovered in the Java Deployment Toolkit browser plugin, a component of Java.
The vulnerability is caused due to an input sanitation error in the Java Deployment Toolkit browser plugin. This can
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LastPass: The Last Password You Need to Remember
How many unique online passwords do you have? If your answer is one or two, you either need to get out on the web more, or the more likely answer, you are using the same password for everything, a very poor but popular security practice. Users, myself included, often use the same password for everything …
Secure WordPress Configuration File
WordPress uses a configuration file named wp-config.php, which contains your database name and password in it, as well as other data such as your table prefix and your secret auth keys (as of WordPress 2.6). Normally when a user attempts to load wp-config.php directly, they will be faced with a blank page.
However, what happens …
AVG Free 9.0: Free Basic PC Security
Many internet users lack security software on their computer, whether its a firewall, antivirus, antispyware, or all of them. Many security software like Symantec and Panda Security costs a subscription fee, however some users do not require a full featured security suite and just require bare security necessities. That’s when free alternatives come in. One …
WOT Protection Extends to Google Chrome
WOT (Web of Trust) is an online security community and browser add-on that helps users stay safe on the web. It has over 5 million sites rated with partnerships with companies like Panda Security.
This excellent security add-on was previously only available to users of Internet Explorer and Firefox. However, it has recently announced in …
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