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I’m a little behind in my podcasts, but today I listened to a Fresh Air broadcast from 6 weeks ago about all the data that online services know about you. Investigative reporter Julia Angwin was curious what Google knew about her, so she asked the company for her search data. “It turns out I had …
I work as an IT Manager at a company, and we have a mixed Novell/Microsoft network. We are slowly phasing out the Novell portion of the network, and are dealing more and more with Microsoft permissions. The permissions options used to be complicated, but as new generations of server operating systems come around, things get …
For the last few days, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten has been reporting on cyber security. It has been a three-part series that started with this: Americans do not often hear that someone has found a way to overcome U.S. defenses, but military and intelligence officials have been sounding downright alarmist lately with their warnings that …
From the New York Times: Logging on to Gmail or other e-mail service has become a routine of daily life, completed without a thought. What would you do, however, if you woke up tomorrow, plugged in your user name and password as you always do, but then received an unfamiliar message: “User name and password …
From The Great Beyond (a “Nature” blog): Ok, the headline is a little misleading. But it’s still a bit worrying that NASA has found a computer virus on the space station. Astronauts onboard the International Space Station are now running anti-virus software on their systems, following last week’s detection of an unwanted computer-guest. According to …