Every step you make….Every breath you take…I’ll be watching you… Verizon Wireless has begun selling information about its customers’ geographical locations, app usage, and Web browsing activities, a move that raises privacy questions and could brush up against federal wiretapping law. The company this month began offering reports to marketers showing what Verizon subscribers are [...]
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E-mail threats are a non-stop nuisance. After the recent “Important Changes to Microsoft Services Agreement” malicious e-mail, we have another swipe at Windows users. This time the e-mail comes in the form of a phishing attack. An e-mail from “privacy@microsoft.com” with the subject of “Microsoft Windows Update” is hitting inboxes around the globe telling users [...]
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Experts at SophosLabs have raised their threat level to “High” in response to an as-yet unpatched security vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The zero day threat, which was uncovered at the weekend and impacts most versions of Windows, has already resulted in the German government advising users to stop using Internet Explorer. The rise in [...]
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It”s probably not a question of “if”, just a question of “when”. Facebook and its users have been hacked in the past. One hack spread through user-to-user chat. A person would click on a link and the virus would be downloaded. The virus deleted any anti-virus programs on the user’s computer and then sent itself [...]
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We Two Guys are somewhat of privacy freaks. We want to do our online thing and be left alone in the process, thank you very much. In other words, we want no one to be tracking anything we do on the internet. Period! That’s why we have always been big fans and users of [...]
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