Google Account Activity reports will give you a detailed look at what is going on
Have you ever thought someone might have logged into your Google account and signed you up for a bunch of games? Have you thought the advertisements you see when browsing the web are targeted for someone else? Help is now available. Google just released their Account Activity report which will give ...
Your smartphone is not protected from the eyes of law enforcement
I often tell my friends to password-protect their phones, computers and any other device they may own. I also stress long passwords whenever possible. My advice to you, dear reader, is to protect your devices with long and hard to guess passcodes. There are even programs available that can wipe the ...
Mobile broadband use can have some disastrous consequences Part 2
If you have not already done so, you may wish to read Part 1. Jeff Rae found out about the power of tweeting in a public forum. Jeff is an Occupy Wall Street activist and he tweeted while he created havoc by shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge. Jeff and the other Occupy ...
Mobile broadband use can have some disastrous consequences Part 1
It seems everyone is using their smartphone to tweet, check into restaurants and nightclubs and share their innermost personal thoughts. Facebook, Twitter as well as other social media are enticing everyone to let loose and tell all. Hardly a month goes by when a movie star, celebrity or politician gets embarrassed ...
iOS crack exposes your photos
Apple’s iOS has a crack in its security. Well, maybe it’s not exactly a crack but a design that is open to some nefarious app developer that enables them to access something that may be precious to you. An app developer may be able to steal or download your pictures. Along ...
Google sends out email reminders to Latitude users
Google has been through the ringer as far as privacy issues go. It seems like just about everyone is questioning them on their privacy policies. Broadband Expert has written about Google’s troubles, the last being the time they were recently hauled in front of Congress to try and explain their ...
The rumors about an Internet Shutdown in March are true if you are infected with DNSChanger
Without the Internet, your smartphone immediately turns into a pumpkin as Cinderella’s carriage did at midnight. Well, not quite a pumpkin; it will still work as a dumb cell phone, so it may as well be a member of the squash family. The most popular date being voiced is March 8th ...
Installing the Norton Mobile Security Lite on your Android smartphone [video]
Broadband Expert recently wrote about the Android.Counterclank Trojan horse that was found in the Android Market by Symantec. This video shows you how to install the free version of Norton Mobile Security Lite on your Android device. This video will also guide you in upgrading to the full version of Norton ...
How to get around SOPA and censorship
With everyone up in arms about SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), people have been busy protesting and writing letters to their congresspersons. Others have taken to the blogosphere and are spreading the protest against Internet censorship. Broadband Expert has written about DaJaz1, a victim of the current DOJ/ICE operations. They were ...
Five pieces of advice for your social network
This bit of advice may be a bit too late for many of you, but there are still a lot of people that can benefit from this sage advice. I can also offer a way to hopefully minimize the damage you may have inadvertently caused. I will discuss Facebook for this ...
Everyone seems to be in an uproar about Carrier IQ – don’t worry about it
The op-eds are blazing with people rioting over Carrier IQ. It has been called everything from a rootkit to spyware, from government Big Brother to the Spawn of the Devil himself. The volume of the complaints, many of them just fear mongering, has made some wireless carriers very nervous. Verizon pulled ...
Be very aware when you use sharing icons on a web site
You can give away information and not even be aware you just did so. Here is how I made this discovery and I will tell you how to avoid doing this in the future. I was rushing to complete research in order to make a deadline and I kept getting this ...
How to change ALL your Go Daddy passwords & more
Broadband Expert wrote about the hacked Go Daddy web sites. What is frightening is the Go Daddy security does not know how the hackers obtained the usernames and passwords. Even more frightening is that they really don’t know if any additional accounts were accessed which could leave them vulnerable to credit ...
Is Google’s Latitude app an opt-in for invasion of privacy?
Besides my daily emails alerting me to my Microsoft Lottery win and the $26 million inheritance someone is willing to share with me, a total stranger, I found another interesting missive in my spambox. A message from Google was hiding among the garbage and nearly was deleted. Curiosity got the better ...
Microsoft Wi-Fi data collection exposed so do not use IE
Just about everyone was raising the red flags when they found out that Apple’s iPhones were collecting location data. I personally think that was much ado about nothing since the data was stored in the iPhone itself and not sent on to the big bad Apple database in the clouds. Then ...
Be aware of bait and switch advertisements
You need to be very careful not to believe all the advertisements you see. I have been tempted to upgrade my phone at least once a week with some seemingly great data offers. Let’s take an advertisement claiming they will give you up to a year of data usage free if ...
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In the past week we have heard that a major company was hacked and personal data for millions of people was stolen. It might have taken some super sleuths months to breach the computer system, or it might have been broken by a kiddie script. It will probably never be ...
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