Private Eye a Free Network Monitor for Lion…

Network monitoring can be tricky, but here’s a free Macintosh OS X Lion application that can help. Usually, a network monitor is used to monitor what network connections an application is using.  For example, in the image above, you can see that iTunes is connecting to Akami, and has 10 connections open… Obviously, this can […]

Windows More Secure Than OS X

Here’s another person that wants to debate, without putting anything on the table to debate with.  His argument, since Black Hat says that Windows is More Secure Than OS X, it must be so. Well, here is my reply. Reality obviously disagrees with you.  First of all, you show absolutely no evidence to back up your […]

Kaba Faces Suit Over Push-Button Locks Breached With Magnet

Yeshai M. Kutoff was house-proud, having bought a home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, for his family of five. And as an Orthodox Jew, he bought push-button locks for the doors — an accommodation for the Sabbath, when many of the devout do not carry keys. Yeshai M. Kutoff had push-button locks installed at his home […]

Should I Change My Password?

Should I Change My Password? has a lookup form where you can enter your email address to see if it was in one of the databases with login info that has been compromised and released to the public. ShouldIChangeMyPassword.com has been created to help the average person check if their password(s) may have been compromised […]

Watch all the passwords!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com?v=0uXbosbLBBQ] Here’s all 25,727 passwords from the LulzSec hack, displayed one password per frame.  Here’s a hint when “000000” is display for about 30 seconds or so, that’s not a good thing.  That means multiple people were using the same password…

What does iTunes actually back up?

What is iTunes backing up when it backups your iDevice?  Here’s the complete list…. Address Book and Address Book favorites. App Store Application data (except the Application itself, its tmp and Caches folder). Application settings, preferences, and data. Autofill for webpages. CalDAV and subscribed calendar accounts. Calendar accounts. Calendar events. Call history. Camera Roll (Photos, […]

Epsilon Email Data Breach: List of Affected Companies Grows

We have news today of a huge data breach at Epsilon, a large email marketing company, which has stated that on Friday it suffered a data breach whereby emails were accessed without authorization. The company has now issued its corporate customers about the hacking with notifications of this security… via Epsilon Email Data Breach: List […]

ALERT: Facebook Chat Hijackings Continue To Spread

We’re seeing lots of people warning about — or at least apologizing for - chat hijackings.The latest one says “Hey, check out this girl, lol, she must be out of her mind for making that video!” and includes a shortened bit.ly web address.That URL leads to a Facebook page running an application called Congood. Clicking “allow” on the permission box… via ALERT: Facebook Chat Hijackings […]