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China was behind Google attacks, say Wikileaks leaks

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John Moe
Nov 29, 2010
251,287 US diplomatic cables were leaked in the latest round of Wikileaks documents and some of them point to China's politburo as being behind...
Posted In: China, Google, Law, privacy, wikileaks, world
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Facebook security FAQ in light of new messaging program

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John Moe
Nov 16, 2010
The security firm Sophos has published an FAQ on security issues presented by Facebook's new and weirdly still unnamed messaging system....
Posted In: business, email, Facebook, privacy, social media, sophos
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Websites ditch cookies

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John Moe
Nov 9, 2010
The Wall Street Journal reports on the move of major websites to get rid of technologies that track users, like cookies. MSNBC, The Huffington Post...
Posted In: cookies, Entertainment, i don't like you all the time, privacy, search, security, Web Culture
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You can't defeat Firesheep! says guy who invented Firesheep

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John Moe
Nov 9, 2010
On today's program, we reported on a new plug-in called Blacksheep that's designed to thwart anyone using the Firesheep spy plug-in....
Posted In: firesheep, privacy, security, social media, Web Culture
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ZeuS is trickier still, eviller still

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John Moe
Nov 5, 2010
The evil genius malware is trying a new technique to thwart the researchers who are going after it. Bad guys are setting up fake interfaces in the...
Posted In: malware, privacy, Science, zeus
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Facebook user data sold

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John Moe
Nov 1, 2010
On Friday, Facebook posted on their developers' blog updating their most recent privacy breach - the one in which the company was sharing user IDs...
Posted In: business, Facebook, privacy
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Macs not so virus-proof after all

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John Moe
Oct 29, 2010
Historically, Mac users have been incredibly smug about the fact that most viruses infect PCs instead of Macs. Their smugness, if harnessed, could...
Posted In: mac, malware, privacy
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FTC ends investigation of Google

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John Moe
Oct 27, 2010
You may recall that Google was found to be gathering data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks while out taking pictures for Google Street View. They say...
Posted In: Google, privacy
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Sheep on fire

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John Moe
Oct 27, 2010
Sounds like the worst Kings of Leon song ever, right? But Firesheep is a big threat to your privacy, not your musical taste. We talked about it on...
Posted In: firesheep, privacy, security, social media
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Oh Google Street View. What are we going to do with you?

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John Moe
Oct 25, 2010
So this is kind of interesting in light of the Firesheep thing. Google now admits that it collected far more information than previously disclosed...
Posted In: Google, privacy, search, street view

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