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What happened? The Guardian newspaper reports here that Facebook inadvertently caused the leakage of personal information related to some of their employees or contractors. These people were moderating (reviewing for potentially unsuitable content)… …
I needed to set up a new printer recently, so I hooked it up over USB and ran the setup program. Everything went as expected, the printer was located and the driver installed. So far, so normal. I also wanted to set it up to be accessed over my home… …
Metadata is data about your document. At the most basic it includes things like the file name, the date the file was last updated and other similar information. Common document types like .XLSX, .RTF, .JPG and .PDF are able to store a lot of metadata in… …
"I'm not going to debate with you on this Jerry . . . I'm not going to debate." This is a quote from Fargo. It's the response from Carl (played by Steve Buscemi), one of the henchmen that Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) has hired to kidnap his… …
I've long been an advocate of a policy of full disclosure when it comes to disclosing identified vulnerabilities - whether the vulnerability is discovered in an I.T. environment or in something a little more basic and physical such as an unlocked door.… …
Scary moments. One of the scarier moments in the life of an I.T. Security person is the time that it dawns on them that their environment has been compromised. People in the health services in the UK and other organisations around the world are having… …
No, the title doesn't have a typo or a missing word. Cyber is an over-used word. Is it time to stamp out the use of "cyber" or at least reduce the usage? The word “cyber” is regularly added these days to all sorts of words with a view to giving that… …
I came across a website recently which had implemented poor controls with the result that it was trivial to retrieve records for other customers. I notified the website owners once I discovered the issue and I'm glad to report that within 24 hours of… …

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