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OK, if some unimaginative journalist and/or editor can call a pair of bulging briefs “Weinergate” I can call this Twitter App “FireTweet”. Like Firesheep, Royal Test (FireTweet) is an attempt to demonstrate a privacy problem. Techcrunch reported this story and I have verified the privacy issue. Despite allegedly being unable to read private messages, applications […]

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There are people who might as well be nonexistent if not for their online presence. It’s a weird sort of reality, something that we wouldn’t think we’d see outside those paperback sci-fi novels. It’s also a problem that courts have to face on a daily basis when it comes to serving official documents. It’s extremely […]

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We are currently seeing a malicious spam campaign purporting to be a notification from LinkedIn. The messages look realistic, but the giveaway is the bogus link exposed when you hover over the confirm button. The bogus link salesforceappi[dot]com leads off to a server hosting an exploit kit, which automatically attempts to load malware onto the […]

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