Reputation.com got hacked. Cue all of the bad jokes about how they really could use a service like Reputation.com right now. At 5PM yesterday, Reputation.com sent an email to its customers revealing that their names, addresses, dates of birth, contact information, and passwords had been stolen by hackers. When your…
Schools are meant to be safe places of learning. For the most part they are. In order to keep schools safe, every school has policies about what can be brought on campus, what types of electronic communication can be used at school and sometimes even what types of communication can…
Freshman year is always pretty exciting. In high school you’re that much closer to driving and moving out of your parent’s house. In college you’re that much closer to going to a bar (legally) and eating pizza as many times a week as you want. Enjoy it! Just be sure…
As soon as the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (PDF) failed in the Senate, speculation started that the President will use an Executive Order to put the legislation to use anyway. Putting aside the massive issues raised by using an Executive Order to override the will of the Senate, it’s not…
The Internet doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone; the way we use it is defined, more than any other factor, by our age. And that defines the extent to which it uses us. When Pew first started researching the Internet in American life in 2000, socio-economic differences were the…
During this morning’s daily Twitter scan I came across an interesting infographic about the NSA. We all know that since the Patriot Act was passed the NSA has been illegally intercepting American’s phone calls and emails without warrants or suspicion of wrongdoing. Also, the NSA is now so large and secretive,…
From ReadWriteWeb, 600,000 Facebook Accounts are Compromised Daily. You have an important decision when establishing your privacy settings on Facebook; do you make everything public, or do you limit it to your friends. The less information you make public, the safer you are. The more information you allow to be…
Are you a ragdoll? Do you enjoy being tossed around like one, and flayed open for the world to inspect? Well Visa and MasterCard treat you like one. The Wall St Journal broke a story uncovering the latest endeavor by the world’s two largest credit card networks; they want to…
Everyone has a story. Maybe you got caught underage drinking during college. Or what about the new house where you thought you’d start over? Had a bankruptcy? Or a marriage? All this information is being collected, bought and sold. Still doesn’t connect? Here’s the list of what one specific site…
Privacy sucks. And by sucks, we mean, the state of privacy sucks, because there’s hardly any of it. Our personal information has made its way online, and it’s being distributed everywhere. Our cell-phone numbers, political views, criminal records, shopping transactions, favorite color, you name it, its online. Back in the…