Internet Safety | Steve Ensley

Hackers steal hundreds of thousands of social security numbers

April 10th, 2012

The article in the link below has some disturbing news. I often warn about using your social security number or other personal information online, but what do we do when the information is held by the state and the state gets hacked? This is exactly what happened in Utah! Over 900,000 residents had their information [...]

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Don’t Be Evil! Really?

March 23rd, 2012

Is nothing off limits? Now Google plans to spy on background noise in your phone calls to bombard you with tailored advertising. According to an article published by Ted Thornhill and posted on Mail Online, Google is at it again. Now they plan to capture background noises and data through android powered devices equipped with [...]

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Google tricks Internet Explorer, foils privacy settings,

February 21st, 2012

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/20/google-tricks-internet-explorer-foils-privacy-settings-microsoft-says/?test=latestnews#ixzz1n1ORoJA2 Although this has been an issue for some time and was one of the first breaches by Google that got my attention, this fact again bares repeating. For those of you who are Safari, IE and Google users, this is not only annoying, it borders on criminal. Google is tracking you and spying on [...]

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