Heartbleed – A Wake Up Call for Open Source
The Heartbleed vulnerability has left many questioning whether open source software is really as safe or as well maintained as it was thought.
Tag: Google
iTrack U – New iPhone and Android App
With news this week that both the iPhone and Android phones track and store information about the owners location, and with neither company offering an explanation of their reasons for doing so, has it just become the accepted norm that our privacy is being steadily eroded, and there is nothing we can do about it … Continued
Amazon Cloud Bursts
Hailed, somewhat naively, as the future of computing, Cloud Computing has taken off apace. However with Amazon’s EC2 Cloud suffering a 36 hour outage recently, it has once again begged the question, is Cloud Computing the future, or the past?
Email Blows Away in the Cloud
Thousands of Google Email users were given a rude awakening this week when Google accidentally reset their accounts. Initially it was thought as many as 500,000 of Gmail users were affected, however Google later revised this to about 40,000 of its 200 million users. But how can you protect yourself against this?
Social Media Mishaps
For many of us, social media has become an extension of other communications mediums, such as texting and emailing; however unlike those mediums, social media is not often one to one, and even more seldom private, as some celebrities have found to their cost.