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Google Was Also Bypassing Internet Explorer Privacy Settings

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Last week I posted about privacy and what I think companies should do to get out from behind the secrecy curtain when it comes to our information they access and retain.  Well it now seems that Google, who has admitted to bypassing user settings in Safari, has now been caught with their . . .

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Privacy Issues Continue: Isn’t It Time To Get This Right?

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Well in the past week several major players in the online and tech community have either come clean or been exposed concerning privacy related actions such as keeping your data without telling you, copying your entire address book or watching your browsing habits.

Now none of this is new stuff – as . . .

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Patch Tuesday Security Updates Go Live for February 2012

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The monthly Patch Tuesday updates are now available so you can wait for the automatic update process to kick in or go to Windows Update on your machine and start the update manually – that is what I usually do once I know they are live.

You can read all the related . . .

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February 2012 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletin Advance Notice Released

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Patch Tuesday is next week and according to the advance noticed that was released earlier today there are nine bulletins to be addressed which includes four labeled Critical and five listed as Important.

According to the notice the following Microsoft software will be updated:

Microsoft Windows

Windows XP with SP3 Windows XP . . .

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Anatomy of a YouTube Phishing Attempt

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It all started innocently enough.  I received a message in my YouTube account inbox from someone on YouTube who referenced a video that I had uploaded of geese walking down the road in front of our house.

The individual told me that they represented a company in the UK that had just . . .

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Cover It Live Experiences Unauthorized Proprietary Data File Access

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“Cover It Live is used by thousands of journalists, bloggers, agencies and large media organizations to engage millions of Readers each month.”

That is the description of their services from their home page and now those thousands of people may have other information at risk.

In an email to users Friday evening . . .

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