In the alert of a recent hack of its commenting system, Gawker Media on Monday introduced some new security procedures, which comprises more secure user authentication. According to Tom Plunkett, Gawker’s chief technology officer, wrote in a memo that was posted on Jim Romenesko’s Poynter blog, they had lost the commenters’ trust and it was [...]
Google is updating its privacy policy in the name of simplicity in the coming month. According to Google Associate General Counsel Mike Yang on Friday, the search engine giant is making revisions to its policy to make it more transparent and understandable to regular users. Due to the fact that most privacy policies are still [...]
After Twitter users reported about a bug which forced them to follow other users, the giant microblogging Twitter had made all its effort to fix the problem. Recently, Twitter has announced that the bug is now fixed, which means many victims’ followers are reset to zero. Twitter also claimed that protected updates were not compromised [...]
The giant software maker Microsoft has announced its new plans to debut two security bulletins for its May 11 Patch Tuesday update, plugging critical holes in Windows and Office. As claimed by Microsoft, both of the updates released to repair two critical vulnerabilities, one of which affects Windows and the other in Microsoft Office. These [...]
McAfee had its fair share of problems Wednesday when a buggy antivirus software update caused the PCs running Windows XP to shut down and experience serial reboots. An initial McAfee investigation indicated that the reboot glitch is linked to an antivirus update detecting a false positive, causing XP computers, specifically those running Windows XP SP [...]
In the wake of several disturbing cyber-bullying stories in the news recently, on Tuesday, Facebook released a new safety center, which is intended to offer a resource for parents, educators, teens, and members of the law enforcement community as well. Joe Sullivan, Facebook’s chief security office, they had quadrupled the safety content available, and they [...]
Yesterday, Microsoft confirmed to deliver 11 security updates next week to patch 25 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and Exchange. Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security said that in its monthly advance notification, Microsoft spelled out next week’s double-digit Patch Tuesday, which is entirely in line with company’s pattern of alternating large- [...]
