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Security

Who Can Access Your Dropbox Folders?

A lot of people use Dropbox as a convenient way to transfer large files from one person's computer to another. I find it to be extremely helpful for podcasters who need to send an audio file of their voice track to an editor who puts everything together. Today, I learned something rather unexpected about who, exactly, can see the files

Washington Post admits website hack

Amazon's Jeff Bezos just purchased the Washington Post -- and despite jokes, I am pretty sure he didn't do it by accidentally clicking the "Buy it Now" button. Plans at this point are unknown, but one thing is certain -- there are already problems to deal with. The newspaper has admitted that its web site was recently hacked. The announcement came in

Apple Developer Website is Down

It is never a good sign when you visit a website and see “We'll be back soon” at the top of the page. Sometimes, it can mean that the site is going through normally scheduled maintenance and truly will be back online in a little while. Not so with the Apple Developer website! To clarify, the website (at the time

Tumblr had a Security Glitch

Tumblr users might want to change their password. The official Tumblr feed announced an important security update for people who were using Tumblr on an iPhone or iPad. If that describes you, Tumblr suggests that you download an update. There is a link on the Tumblr announcement page that you can click to download the update. In addition to the

Avast cites unsecured WiFi usage as reason to release new VPN client

VPN (virtual private network) clients have been around for sometime, and are utilized by many corporations. It is a technology that individual users should also take advantage of. Avast hope to make that security option a trend with a new effort to help the average user be more secure when using a laptop or other mobile device at the local Starbucks. Citing

PayPal is hackable, denies teenager bounty for finding the bug

PayPal, the popular online payment transfer service owned by Ebay, is currently under fire on two fronts. The banking service is vulnerable to attck, thanks to a bug in its system, and also is refusing to pay its standard bounty to the person who found said vulnerability, citing that security researches must be at least 18 years of age, leaving the 17

Did DHS leak your personal data?

This week the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an organization we rely on the protect us and keep the country safe, revealed that, perhaps, it has not protected its own employees. According to the security report issued by ThreatPost, the organization has begun the notification process about a possible information leak. "The Department of Homeland Security this week began