December 15th, 2010
Yesterday morning I got an email from the blogging network Gawker, publishers of sites such as Gizmodo and Lifehacker, that generated a real “oh s***” moment. “This weekend we discovered that Gawker Media’s servers were compromised, resulting in a security breach… As a result, the user name and password associated with your comment account were released on the internet.” Yup. [...]
October 21st, 2010
And, for the third time I’ve had one of the calls (see here and here for the background). “Hi Mr Brown, this is Gabriel – is it you that’s having a problem with your computers?” “Which computers?” “The ones running Windows…” “I don’t run Windows you thieving, lying, fraudulent scumbag.” <click> Every time I get [...]
October 20th, 2010
I may have to rename this “The Facebook Cock-Up Blog” shortly. Yet again, the people who allow you to “connect and share with the people in your life” have scored an almighty own goal. You may remember that a little over a week ago Facebook announced its new Groups feature: where people of like-minded interests [...]
October 18th, 2010
When a company holds personal information on 500 million of us, is it too much to expect them to keep it secure? The latest security breach to hit uber-social network Facebook involves the games that many people like to fill their social time with – Farmville, Frontierville and the like – and the advertising networks [...]