May 2010

Facebook Privacy Widget

This is a lovely Firefox Add-on that attempts to check and then offer to fix all your rogue Facebook settings. Krebs on Security reports on a study that found most of the Firefox crashes were do to crappy Facebook applications :(

Facebook IP Leak

It appears emails sent from facebook contain enough info that it is possible to geo-locate a sender The details are here.

Facebook f**k up

Oops. Facebook's new Open Graph API is leaking sez PC World. It's security breaches such as these that will cause problems because of the interrelationship between so many disparate applications and the general mass of users who never check settings. If people don't start taking security seriously before a problem develops the cost and effort to fix the problem could be very high indeed.

Critical Opera flaw - patch NOW!

If you use Opera and do not automagically update your installation you a) should ;) and b) need to manually update NOW to fix a gigantic security hole. After the update you better be running version 10.53 to be safe.

 

 

 

 

WiFi network finder - now with password cracker!

If you use a router and are still using WEP encryption then please read this.

I'll wait.

Ok.

Connect to your router and ensure you are using WPA or better yet, WPA2.