by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
Here’s something they don’t teach in marketing 101: If you’re pushing software that no one wants — like, say, annoying adware — and your downloads are going nowhere, what do you do?Answer: you push somebody else’s popular software and bundle your...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
At a privacy roundtable sponsored by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in San Francisco, Facebook Director of Public Policy Tim Sparapani said that 35 percent of the 350 million Facebook users (that’s 122 million!) actually checked their privacy settings when...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
From Richard Purcell, executive director of The Privacy Projects (www.theprivacyprojects.org), organizing sponsor of Data Privacy Day:“Most consumers see the benefit of living online, but too few are aware of just how much information is being collected, who is...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Someone hacked into a 3Stars outdoor advertising screen on the Garden Ring road in Moscow about midnight last Thursday and ran a two-minute hardcore video clip.The showing caused a massive traffic jam but city officials said the good news was that there were no...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Researchers with Internet security group Team Cymru, headquartered in Burr Ridge, Ill., have reported that in the last six months they found a doubling of the number of botnets controlled through http – indicating easy-to-use point-and-click kits that function in a...
