Android users have been able to browse anonymously using the Tor proxy network for some time, thanks to a University of Cambridge project called Shadow that we reported on late last year. Now The Tor Project itself has released an official Android client called Orbot, which should bring anonymous mobile browsing further into the mainstream. [...]
It seems, if unnamed sources are to be believed, that the target of the cyberattack on Google back in January was none other than the unified Single Sign-On — the system that controls access to almost every Google Web service, including Enterprise offerings and Gmail. Believe it or not, hackers managed to access the source [...]
There’s been no shortage of blog coverage about the stray iPhone left behind by Apple engineer Gray Powell in a California bar last month. While gadget and Apple blogs have been busily covering every possible piece of minutia around the incident, the device, and whether or not Mr. Powell wears black turtlenecks, the crew at [...]
Ask most computer techs or power users which virus programs you should avoid, and the big two retail boxed options — Norton and McAfee — will usually be the first two words out of their mouths. In the enterprise, however, the situation is very different. Symantec and McAfee still have pretty strong reputations and a [...]
Blippy calls itself “a fun and easy way to see and discuss what everyone is buying.” Call me crazy, but I’ve never thought the service was a great idea. I mean…if I really want to tell people what I was spending money on, I could just tweet about it or post it on my Facebook [...]
If you’ve been wondering why Facebook chat was mysteriously “down for maintenance” during normally high-usage hours this morning, it’s probably because they were alerted this morning to a pretty serious security hole in their privacy settings. The hole allowed for what can only be called one of the easiest exploits in recent memory; it allowed [...]
Google has just added a new feature to Gmail: If you log on from a certain country, and a short while later, someone logs on from a different country, you will then get a security alert like the one above. It tells you that someone has tried to access your account from another country. It [...]
By now, you’ve probably heard that Facebook has made some big changes that affect your privacy. However, you might not know what they are. So far, the changes have been explained in the language of the people that they benefit: companies and app developers. What about us, the end users? Here’s a handy collection of [...]
When you first run across SnapScouts, an Android app that offers FourSquare-style badges to kids who snap photos of their neighbors engaging in “suspicious activity,” you might think it’s for real. I mean, an app that employs children to create a creepy Orwellian police state where people inform on one another, a private company analyzes [...]
With more than 1.3 million downloads, the Ghostery add-on for Firefox is obviously an extremely popular way to know who’s keeping tabs on your Web browsing. All kinds of tracking goes on behind the scenes while you surf. Google, Omniture, comScore, and others are gathering data wherever they can. If you’d like to know what’s [...]
