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Facebook Asks More Than 350 Million Users Around the World To Personalize Their Privacy

PALO ALTO, Calif. — December 9, 2009 — Setting a new standard in user control, Facebook announced today that it is calling on its more than 350 million users to review and update their privacy settings—a first among major Internet services. In addition, Facebook will be rolling out...

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Fri, Dec 18 2009
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, privacy, social networking, legal, Facebook, Miscelaneous
Facebook fine-tunes privacy controls

Facebook says it is boosting privacy by giving users control over who sees each bit of information they put on the social-networking site, and by doing away with regional and group networks. "We're adding something that many of you have asked for — the ability to control who sees each...

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Wed, Dec 2 2009
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, privacy, social networking, legal, News, world, Facebook, CBC Canada
Canadian copyright law to trump Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

Industry Minister Tony Clement, responding to accusations that an international anti-counterfeiting agreement will criminalize everyday activity by Canadians, says any such pact will be "subservient" to copyright rules created domestically. Clement said suggestions that Canada will lose its...

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Tue, Dec 1 2009
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, privacy, legal, News, Operating Systems, world, CBC Canada, EU, Litigation
Mininova removes links to copyrighted files

Mininova, one of the biggest torrent file-sharing websites in the world, has removed links to all copyrighted content that it does not have official agreements for. Thursday's move is a win for the entertainment industry as users of the site are now cut off from a major source of torrent files, which...

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Thu, Nov 26 2009
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, privacy, malware, legal, News, CBC Canada, EU, Litigation, Torrents
Windows Optimizers..

Q. What kind of stuff is most likely to slow down a computer? A. Malware Do you think that my answer was too short? OK, let’s blame something else. How about we pick on Windows processes When we install Windows, more than a few processes are set in motion, BUT more than a few are just set up and do nothing...

Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Mon, Oct 19 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Spyware, Utilities, Performance
Some good news..

If you haven’t come across CyberSecurity 2009 yet, I can tell you that it looks almost like the Windows Security Center. The two real difference are the name and the fact that you can’t shut it down. It infects Internet Explorer by blocking any website which contains anything which might be used to remove...

Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, Oct 10 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Spyware, Security
Google results flog millions of compromised webpages

Two ongoing scams are tricking Google and other search engines into prominently displaying millions of compromised webpages that attempt to hijack end users' computers or steal their credit card numbers, researchers said. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/01/mass_compromise_google_results/

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Thu, Oct 1 2009
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, privacy, malware, virus, The Register, Browsers, Vulnerabilities, Scammers
Microsoft releases free antivirus software

Microsoft's free antivirus program, Security Essentials, became available for download from the company's website Tuesday. Microsoft bills the software as providing "high-quality protection" against viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware and other malicious software. It updates and...

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Tue, Sep 29 2009
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, privacy, Microsoft, malware, News, Operating Systems, CBC Canada
New York Times Reforms Online Ad Sales After Malware Scam

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/nyt-revamps-online-ad-sales-after-malware-scam/

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Sat, Sep 19 2009
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, privacy, malware, legal, News, Vulnerabilities
1st porn app on iTunes 'sold out'

The first app featuring images of nude women to go up for sale on iTunes can no longer be downloaded because it was too popular, the developer reported Thursday. "The Hottest Girls app is temporarily sold out , " said a post signed by the "ATG dev team" on the website of developer...

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Thu, Jun 25 2009
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, privacy, social networking, News, apple, CBC Canada, Canada
Internet Security..

We all need it, but how many really want it? The good ole days of Windows 98, iIf a computer user wanted to transfer a file via MSN, Yahoo, AOL Buddy or ICQ to another user and it wouldn’t transfer, what was the the first thing that both users would do? If your answer was anything other than ‘turn off...

Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sun, Apr 26 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Spyware, Security
Conficker worm sends new instructions: grow botnet, then die

The Conficker worm has begun to update the machines it has infected with a new set of instructions to spread to other machines and then self-destruct, security experts say. Security researchers tracking the worm said some of the infected computers began receiving instructions on April 7 from other infected...

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Thu, Apr 9 2009
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, privacy, updates, social networking, legal, virus, News, Operating Systems, world, Browsers, CBC Canada
Conficker botnet remains dormant - for now

Conficker changed the way parts of the botnet communicated overnight, but little else of note has happened so far. The malware is far from an April Fool's joke, but it's obviously a long way from the Skynet botnet, as depicted in Terminator 3, that some of the more fevered imaginings of the media...

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Wed, Apr 1 2009
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, privacy, virus, News, world, The Register, Browsers, Vulnerabilities, Scammers
China rejects computer spy claims

China's government on Tuesday dismissed a research report outlining an extensive spy network based mostly in China as "lies" designed to hurt the country's image abroad. Speaking to reporters, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said the conclusions of the report by Canadian researchers...

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Tue, Mar 31 2009
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, privacy, malware, legal, News, china, CBC Canada, Vulnerabilities, Scammers
As Conficker activation looms, scammers seek to profit off fear

Online scammers are trying to profit from fear of the latest big name in internet viruses by creating and promoting links to fake security software, according to security firms. The scams are hoping to capitalize on consumer fear over the Conficker worm, a version of which is set to activate on April...

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Tue, Mar 31 2009
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, virus, News, world, CBC Canada, Vulnerabilities
Reported internet spy network just tip of iceberg: researcher

An internet spy network that targeted hundreds of "high value" computers belonging to government departments and other organizations in 103 countries is likely just one of many, says one of the Canadian researchers who uncovered it. "We happened to discover and publicize this particular...

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Tue, Mar 31 2009
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, legal, News, world, CBC Canada, Vulnerabilities
Top-secret spy pics found on eBay-bought camera

A digital camera containing secret images and information about terrorism suspects from the British spy service MI6 was accidentally sold on eBay, according to various reports Tuesday from Britain. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/09/30/terrorcam-sold.html

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Tue, Sep 30 2008
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, privacy, legal, News, world, CBC Canada
An Online ticket?!?

What a surprise... This morning I was happily working at the office, hhmm... okay, from home..., when Outlook notified me that I had received an email. When I checked it was from an unknown company USA3000 Airlines. When I read the email they even had a ticket for me and had charged the credit card for...

Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Mon, Sep 22 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Latest Virus Threats, Spyware, Malware
History shaped Google's Trojan Horse

Analysis When people buy software - buy it in seriously large amounts - it isn't just today's binary they're choosing. They're buying what they think is a bit of the future - they're buying a piece of risk insurance. This explains why very mature and well-proven systems often lose...

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Thu, Sep 4 2008
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, google, privacy, legal, News, The Register, Browsers, Vulnerabilities
Google restores Chrome's shine

Polishes up its EULA Google has acted with speed and retracted the objectional sentences in Chrome's EULA, so that any content you post via Chrome is yours and yours alone. The ruckus was caused by our old friends, the paralegal firm Cut 'n' Paste Inc. Their employment has now been terminated...

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by Randy Knobloch on Thu, Sep 4 2008
Filed under: Filed under: security, spyware, google, privacy, updates, News, The Register

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