DDOS attack on LIME's Internet system

DDOS attack on LIME's Internet system LIME says the majority of the customers experiencing degradation in their broadband services over the past few days are now back online and connecting at normal speeds. LIME says the type of attack is known in technology circles as a distributed denial of...

Links and Privacy

If you are affiliated with other websites — if you have a blog, are on Facebook, tweet on Twitter, or have a Tumblr account — then the Google+ “Links” feature is a great way to consolidate your life online that can also impact or impair your online privacy. When adding sites to your “Links,” you...

+1 Privacy

The +1 feature is Google’s answer to Facebook’s “Like” button. As with the Facebook “Like” feature, if you click the “+1” button for an article you like from another website, Google+ will post that link to your stream. Unlike Facebook, Google+ makes it easy to control who will see that link...

One Circle To Rule Them All!

If you’re going to use Google+, you’ve got to master the fine art of Circle Management. Circles are the main privacy control center of Google+. They allow you to create groups of friends and associates using a powerful and cool user interface that makes it easy group friends, family and coworkers...

Of Night Dragons and Silver Bullets

Reading the headlines today one could not help but notice the latest installment of “scary Chinese hacker press” making the headlines. And who can blame the news media for latching on to this story as it has all the right ingredients: foreign governments targeting U.S. interests, catchy nicknames...

Image Of The Day: Wikileaks Cablegate By the Numbers

Its no surprise that the headlines this Monday that weren’t about the online shopping Bacchanal known as Cyber Monday were about the latest purge of confidential documents from Wikileaks. The Web site, which made a name for itself by publishing leaked documents concerning the wars in Iraq and...

Behind Facebook 'Breach': New Apps, Old Infrastructure

A report of a massive ‘privacy breach’ at Facebook reveals, instead, the rickety underpinnings of the modern Internet straining at the demands of new applications. When the Wall Street Journal broke a story on Monday about a “Privacy Breach” at Facebook, all the elements were in place for a...