Gawker Password Hack Ripples Across the Web
If you thought the Gawker password hack was limited to blog commenting, you would be sadly mistaken. The data now freely available covers “about 1.5 million usernames, e-mails, and passwords.” The hack is affecting users across a myriad of sites and services including LinkedIn, Yahoo, Twitter, and Blizzard’s “World of Warcraft.” This growing problem illustrates [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 8-28-09
Looks like Microsoft made a major error in judgement when they removed the head of a black man on a Polish marketing site and replaced it with a white guy’s. Not only that, but they didn’t even bother to Photoshop the hands to match. At first, I thought this was really racist of them, but it looks like there really aren’t that many black people in that region and they were just trying to match the marketing with the local demographic. Still, how sloppy and lazy of them to simply Photoshop the image. Now, TechCrunch has an excuse to kick off a meme.
Read MoreTech Week in Review 7-24-09
Google just announced a new Gmail feature which makes it simple to unsubscribe from trusted mailing lists. Sometimes, we subscribe to things and later decide it’s too much or not valuable. Rather than hunting around for that tiny unsubscribe link, Gmail let’s unsubscribe by hitting Report Spam. Even if it’s not really spam, you can access the same option in the Details menu. This only works on certain trusted mailing lists and requires participation from the owner of the list.
Read MorePassPack Comes Out of Beta and Introduces Pro Upgrade
PassPack, the secure online password manager, is coming out of beta. A brief description of the service from their website: Passpack is an online password manager that stores sensitive information in a secure environment protected by a US Government approved algorithm. This information is available to users anywhere with Internet. Passpack provides users convenient 1 [...]
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