November 2015

#SocialMedia #Security – Popular Facebook Quiz Compromises Security Of 16 Million People Who Have Taken It – Over 16 million Facebook users have reportedly taken an unquestionably enjoyable and somewhat harmless Facebook quiz, dubbed “What Are Your Most Used Words on Facebook?” which necess Link: Popular Facebook Quiz Compromises Security Of 16 Million People Who …

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It’s been an interesting few days for Amazon and its customers. The monolithic online retailer recently made a lot of consumers happy be rolling out two-step authentication to accounts in order to try and make using Amazon a lot more secure. Link: Amazon Resets Account Passwords After Possible Password Leak

Analysis Dell ships Windows computers with software that lets websites slurp up the machine’s exact specifications, warranty status, and other details without the user knowing. This information can be used to build a fingerprint that potentially identifies a person while she browses across the web. Link: Dell computers bundled with backdoor that blurts hardware fingerprint …

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