Beware of “Smishing”

Have you heard about smishing? Text scams seeking to part you from your money or valuable data.

It happens to the best of us – I recover my computer from malware

I got to have a proof of concept last night. I had to recover my computer from serious malware. Since I had everything backedup on the cloud, restoration of my computer took very little time.

Will you lose Internet access on Monday July 9th?

Please pardon the intentionally alarmist title of this post, but I want to get your attention. By now, hopefully, you have heard of the DNSChanger virus and checked your computer(s) to see if you are infected. But if you haven’t, and you are one of the potentially 70 thousand people in the United States who […]

LinkedIn Fail – How to Change your LinkedIn Password

As you probably know by now, LinkedIn has had a pretty big security fail. Anything can be hacked, but to be hacked because you are using old technology? Unacceptable. In addition, we recently learned that LinkedIn used its iPhone app to take calendar information from users (a violation of Apple’s terms of service never mind […]

More on Google Privacy – The Dashboard and Ad Personalization

I wanted to let you know about two more items you might want to check in order to control your privacy on Google. The first is the Google Dashboard. To access it log in to your account and go to https://www.google.com/dashboard/b/0/ Here you will find a list of your various accounts. The second is Ad […]

Is Facebook spying on your text messages? It says no…but it can and you said it was ok anyway.

I have an Android phone, and like many people, I don’t necessarily check as carefully as I should when I download apps. From time to time I double check my apps to see what rights I am granting the program, and more often than not I am horrified. Many of the apps give themselves broad […]

Happy Holidays – Amazing Stupid Robber Tricks

I don’t know why I continue to be amazed at the stupidity of some people when it comes to posting online. Perhaps it is my own naivete. Regardless, over the past year or three a number of thieves have gotten themselves caught by posting about stealing, posting pictures of what they have stolen, or even […]

Modern Identity Theft – Social Media as Revenge

Identity theft isn’t a new concept. Seen the movie “Catch me if you can?” In essence, the protagonist, a real criminal who turned adviser to the FBI later in life, was stealing identities for money (and perhaps a more exciting life.) Of course, these days people steal identities so they can open credit card accounts, […]