Cyber Security Lessons From China: What You Need to Be Concerned About
Posted by Angela Render on October 15, 2011
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Cyberattack Lessons from China
Posted by Angela Render on January 18, 2010
I sent the following bulletin to my mailing list, but I thought I’d include it here as well: Dear Friends, Google and Microsoft have been in the news lately over the latest cyberattack from China. This one involves an exploit found in Internet Explorer versions all of them. (full report: Microsoft Security Advisory (979352) – [...]
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Could Bing and Google Be the Death of Facebook and Twitter?
Posted by Angela Render on October 22, 2009
Or will the search engines kill themselves? Related Articles Microsoft’s Bing adds Twitter search (update: Google will too) Washington Post Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too CNET News Microsoft partners with Facebook, Twitter on search CNET News The Washington Post reported today that Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, and Google will start crawling Twitter posts. [...]
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Google Security Alert
Posted by Angela Render on September 9, 2008
Do NOT Use Chrome
On September 5, 2008, Google announced the launch of its own web browser. Chrome was billed as an open source browser with a “faster more reliable experience.” Seeing as how I might have to eventually program to this browser, I downloaded it for a test-drive to see how it rendered pages compared to Firefox and Internet Explorer.
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Freelancers and Getting paid for Web Rights
Posted by Angela Render on August 22, 2008
A Federal Appeals Court Voids Agreement for Back Pay
The New York Times reported on November 20, 2007 that a federal appeals court had thrown out an agreement between freelance writers and publishers. The publishers agreed to pay damages for putting early articles on the web without first securing the rights. (For the whole article, visit the New York Times: Appeals Court Voids Agreement to Pay Freelancers for Work Published on the Web.)
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Personablity vs Security: The Writers’ Quandary
Posted by Angela Render on
I just saw something scary. I was researching some possible platform building forums for a client when I ran across one that made me cover my face with my hands and shake my head. There on the page, visible to everyone—whether they were members of the forum or not—was a woman who had posted details about herself, her family and her kids as part of this online community. Interspersed with the text were pictures of each of her five kids, labeled with their names and ages. This was signed with her full name, city and state of residence. I scraped my jaw up off of the floor and, on a whim, I went digging into her past posts. I found details about her kids’ personalities, food preferences, school—the list goes on and gets even scarier.
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