The Weakest Link

The other day, I heard this piece about social engineering How One Hack Got to Engineers with Security Clearances by Queena Kim on Marketplace.

There are no eye-opening revelations there, but it is quite interesting in that it shows how human weaknesses (or, rather, the weakness of being human) may be exploited on social networks (including the so-called professional social networks).

The Latest Ain't Always the Greatest... Revisited

A few years ago, I posted The Latest Ain't Always the Greatest about upgrading applications for no real reason. Today, I would like to look at updating your Windows OS and whether it is really such a good thing to do.

Facebook Photo Sharing is BAD

It is up to you to decide how bad this is for you, but to me it looks like a typical case of BAD (Broken As Designed):