Month: July 2012

by Larry Magid How to Create (use use) Strong & Unique Passwords from ConnectSafely This article was updated from one that appears on ConnectSafely.org after the Yahoo password breach on July 12, 2012 A strong and confidential password is essential, […]

Here’s an interesting slide show with some data about how teens (and adults too) are using social networking, cell phones and other technologies. And here’s a summary from CNET. Teens 2012: Truth, Trends, and Myths […]

This article first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Monday, July 9, 2012 by Larry Magid Whether it’s one of Apple’s (AAPL) little MacBook Air laptops or one of the growing number of small ultrabooks running Microsoft […]

It’s hard to know if the media and security experts overreacted with warnings or if those warnings are what prevented a major problem but very few people were knocked offline as a result of the […]

This isn’t a biology lesson but a geographic analysis of the countries that are sending the most Tweets. As the chart shows, the United States and Brazil are heavy sources of Tweets, but there are also […]

Updated on Sunday July 8th at 8:20 PM ET Easy detection and fix As of Sunday night, about 46,000 computers  in the U.S. are infected with malicious software called DNSChanger, according to the Associated Press.  The number keeps declining. Last […]

It was a pretty big deal when Google announced iGoogle in 2005 but times they are a changing. Today Google announced that it will “retire” iGoogle along with four other products: the Google Mini, Google Talk Chatback, Google Video and its Symbian Search app. iGoogle isn’t […]

It’s not as elaborate or as long as the U.S. Declaration of Independence but the Declaration of Internet Freedom takes a strong stand to “keep the Internet free and open.”  The organizers are calling it an “international movement to defend […]

A lot of Facebook users are upset that the company arbitrarily changed their email address in its contact info section from their preferred address to their Facebook.com address.  About a year ago, Facebook assigned all of its […]