Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

This is very interesting news from Clark Howard today: Employers monitor your social networking profile Are the Facebook posts and Twitter tweets you make while away from the job immune from the prying eyes of your employer? The New York Times reports that new software called Social Sentry is ensuring everything you do online is [...]

Ya gotta wonder. A few years ago, there was news that Chinese-made Maxtor/Seagate hard drives sold in the UK and U.S. were infected with malicious trojans. From what I recall, the Chinese shrugged and said “oopsie.” Now there’s news that the Chinese are installing malware and distributing computer accessories with purposeful security holes. United Kingdom’s [...]

Wow. This is the stuff that movies and books are made of. Long ago, cat burglars would steal diamonds, emeralds, tiaras, and cash. What are thieves grabbing today? Apple Macbooks. *chuckle* SOUTH BRUNSWICK — They never touched the floor — that would have set off an alarm. They didn’t appear on store security cameras. They [...]

If you use Twitter, be on the lookout for (another) phishing scam. It comes in the guise of a genuine follower’s message– usually it’s a direct message but there have been reports of the message on the public Twitter roster– saying something like “LOL, is this u?” or “hahaha u look funny here.” If you [...]

I got the following in my email from Clark Howard e-zine: RIP-OFF ALERT: We’ve gotten several calls from listeners complaining about being ripped off while checking out at many otherwise legitimate Internet selling sites. Typically, our callers report seeing a message during checkout asking if they’d like to save X amount of dollars on their [...]

This blows my mind: what was once high-tech security measures comes to a computer near you. C|Net.com wrote a riveting article about the latest program to come down the pike: KeyLemon. It uses the webcam to detect your face and upper-body shape. There’s even a Firefox plugin for logging in to social networking sites. KeyLemon [...]