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Fake Nigerian princes aren't all bad, maybe they're just bored
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John Moe
Jan 25, 2011
That's what Nigerian internet entrepreneur Oo Nwoye is saying in a recent blog post. She says the people trying to pull those email scams are not...
Facebook offers critical tool for people in Tunisia, and the Tunisian government steals their passwords
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John Moe
Jan 24, 2011
The Atlantic writes today about what Facebook has meant to protesters and how authorities have been messing with people's info on the site. In all...
Websites ditch cookies
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John Moe
Nov 9, 2010
The Wall Street Journal reports on the move of major websites to get rid of technologies that track users, like cookies. MSNBC, The Huffington Post...
You can't defeat Firesheep! says guy who invented Firesheep
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John Moe
Nov 9, 2010
On today's program, we reported on a new plug-in called Blacksheep that's designed to thwart anyone using the Firesheep spy plug-in....
Sheep on fire
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John Moe
Oct 27, 2010
Sounds like the worst Kings of Leon song ever, right? But Firesheep is a big threat to your privacy, not your musical taste. We talked about it on...
ZeuS imitating Conficker
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John Moe
Oct 15, 2010
There's a whole lot of tech jargon in this story that I'll spare you but the important thing to know is that the ZeuS computer worm, which has been...
Biblical clue in Stuxnet worm?
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John Moe
Sep 30, 2010
We talked this week about the Stuxnet computer worm. It's a bit of malware that attacks infrastructure system controls as opposed to electronic...
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Soon, a trip to the airport might mean a skeleton scan
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author198
Aug 24, 2010
Yesterday, body scan images were in the news thanks to a handful of U.S. Senators who want to know why 35,000 images taken of people walking into a...
CAMERON DIAZ IS GOING TO KILL YOU
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John Moe
Aug 19, 2010
By "you", I mean your computer. By "kill", I mean infect with malware. She's going to infect with malware your computer. And by "going", I mean...
How to make your Safari browser not tell everyone everything about you
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John Moe
Jul 23, 2010
So there's this problem with Safari, in that it can let any website, even creepy ones you arrive at accidentally, see private information. Apple...