Security

Fraudulent emails have started surfacing that announce the imminent availability of the new iPhone 5GS from coming Friday. These emails are part of a new wave of phishing scams and are likely to be an attempt to hack Apple IDs and passwords. The Apple ID of a user is his/her core identity in the eyes [...]

The social media site started by three entrepreneurial moms and geared toward kids younger than 13 years of age, Everloop.com, announced a new partnership today with two globally recognized kids’ brands, National Geographic’s Animal Jam and Mattel’s Monster High.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Samsung Mobile has hired Steve Kondik aka Cyanogen, known as one of the most notorious and successful Android Hackers, for an undisclosed amount as a Software Engineer. Looks like with the heating competition in the mobile handset space Samsung has opted to hunt down talent, while others are stockpiling patents.

ESPN journalist Erin Andrews didn’t plan on becoming an advocate for stricter Internet security. Then again, she never expected to be filmed in the privacy of her hotel room, either, by a complete stranger, who was holding a cell phone up to a peep hole, in the sick hope she’d walk by. (It was later [...]

Mobile apps for LinkedIn, Netflix, Foursquare and Square have been found to significantly lack in security precautions according to an evaluation conducted by ViaForensics. The evaluation revealed that apps for these services do not adequately store user passwords, which are kept by the apps without proper (rudimentary) encryption. This basic flaw in the apps has put the users [...]

David Chartier, a former Mac World writer, revealed that nearly 50% of the iPhone users ignore to sync their iPhones with iTunes after unboxing the phone. Call it laziness or lack of awareness of the iPhone user to keep their devices up to date, whatever it is, it shows that so many iPhone devices are on [...]

Fraudulent emails have started surfacing that announce the imminent availability of the new iPhone 5GS from coming Friday. These emails are part of a new wave of phishing scams and are likely to be an attempt to hack Apple IDs and passwords. The Apple ID of a user is his/her core identity in the eyes [...]

Available in the cloud at no cost, GoLiveCampus.com allows parents, students and teachers to safely search for relevant videos. The site dynamically pulls content from YouTube and social networking sites through a robust safe search. The search removes comments and ads and gives students access only to clean, appropriate videos.

One example, I like, features Ashley Argota of “True Jackson, VP” and Gage Golightly of “The Troop” suggests signing off the computer and don’t reply to a hostile messenger. They also suggest blocking bullies from access and make a copy of the message to show to an adult you trust.

Today, I found out that the warning is not true, it’s just a rumor, so don’t believe it. If you read the fine print on lines 7B and 7C of Facebook’s advertising guidelines, you will read that advertisers cannot use user data (including photos) in their ads without prior consent either from Facebook or the user.

To error is human and Tumblr admits a human being made the mistake which led to the exposure of “sensitive server configuration information”, but not the rumored disclosure of users’ login details. The platform fixed the situation just a few hours after its detection and is now reviewing its dealings to make sure similar calamities are prevented.