Wednesday, April 16, 2014


Heartbleed Fallout: Change All Your Passwords



This week we learned that a popular crypto library has been totally vulnerable to attack for two years. The bug, named "Heartbleed" by its discoverers, lets cybercrooks subvert the heartbeat service that keeps a secure connection open between two computers. Once they're in, they can steal security keys, login credentials, and all of the encrypted data.

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16 Cool Things You Can Do With Google Glass


If you shelled out $1,500 to get on the Google Glass bandwagon yesterday, we have a quick primer on some cool things you didn't know you could do with your newest acquisition. Check it out here ....
InfoWorld Home / Mobile Technology / Your no-fuss, fail-safe guide to protecting... APRIL 14, 2014 Your no-fuss, fail-safe guide to protecting Android devices For optimum Android security, combine the OS's built-in protections with third-party apps to reduce your risk As Android's popularity continues to climb, it's increasingly joining the workplace. In its early days, Android had little in the way of security, relegating it to personal use. But over the years, Google has upped the ante in terms of Android security, as have third-party vendors. Read more ...

Thursday, December 20, 2012

How To Use Social Media in a Disaster

If a fire, an ice storm, or even a terrorist attack struck your organization, would you immediately go online and Tweet about it? No? Well, maybe you should. So says a report from Janco. Yet most companies haven't considered how to deploy social-media tools as part of their disaster recovery and business continuity planning. While many of them have incorporated Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs and YouTube as part of their branding, marketing and customer outreach efforts, they haven't learned how to exploit the same tools to communicate during an emergency. “Social networks are powerful,” says M. Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco. “They allow anyone to share – and hear – information transmitted from others in real time from anywhere. We've found that both true and false information is spread via social networks, in fact.” To get the right information into the right hands, organizations must come up with proactive social-media disaster-response plans.

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Instagram Back-Pedals, Restates User Content Policy

NEWS ANALYSIS: Believing that Instagram and Facebook were changing the rules without user input, the backlash from users and non-users alike was swift all through the social networks, especially Facebook. Thousands of Facebook members threatened to opt out of the service, many using language not appropriate for general consumption.

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The Great Tariff Caper