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Beware The Ides of April: Web Indexing and Tax Data

April 13, 2011 by techprognosis

Tax season is in high gear and with it comes the need to be extra vigilant on how tax records are handled. After all, your tax records “has everything” that can be considered as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). PII refers to information that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person or can be used with other sources to uniquely identify a single individual.

Stephen Chapman over at ZDNet observed that as of 4/10/2011, there were over 50 tax documents containing any given combination of Social Security numbers, credit card information, names, addresses, tax IDs, and phone numbers being made available online.

WeR1 v Cyberlynk: Ethics and Danger in the Cloud

April 5, 2011 by techprognosis

A recent lawsuit involving WeR1 World Network and CyberLynk Network brings up the issue of ethics, responsibility and danger in the much hyped “Cloud” storage utility that has been agressively pushed by most of the major vendors in recent times.

The gist of the case is that a disgruntled employee of Cyberlynk managed to log back into the Cyberlynk network after he was fired and proceeded to delete about 304GB of data which happened to include an entire season of the TV show called “Zodiac Island” produced by WeR1 network.

The Comodo Hack: How Serious Is It?

March 30, 2011 by techprognosis

The recent Comodo hack seems to be a lot more serious than initially thought with the latest information that the hacker was actually able to wipe a hard drive on the Comodo server. To quote the gloating hacker:

Some stupids in internet still cannot understand I’m behind the attack on SSL, talks about their small understandings about my hack and makes me nervous. I uploaded JUST 1 table of their ENTIRE database which I own. Also ask Comodo about my hack, ask them what I did to them. Let me tell you what I did: I was logged in into their server via RDP (remote desktop), they detected me and via hardware firewall, they added allowed IP for RDP, so I was no longer able to login via RDP.

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The AT&T, T-Mobile Merger: Small Business Implications

March 26, 2011 by techprognosis

AT&T Inc. and German telephone company Deutsche Telekom AG recently announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which AT&T will acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash-and-stock transaction currently valued at approximately $39 billion.

The lofty goals of this acquisition according to the AT&T Press Release are as follows:

The First 48: Firefox 4 Released

March 25, 2011 by techprognosis

Mozilla released Firefox 4 on March 22, 2011 and the free and open source web browser had 15.8 million downloads within the first forty-eight hours.

The Firefox team pulled together the following infographic to share some cool stats about the first 48 hours following the launch:

Using Download Options in Internet Explorer 9

March 1, 2011 by techprognosis

Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 9 RC and it included a download manager. According to Microsoft:

Download Manager is integrated with the Windows download folder. It’s an easy way to interact with file downloads, which means you can sort, print, or send your downloads to another location, just as you would with other files. You can also use Download Manager to control your downloads, including everything from running or opening files to pausing or canceling downloads. You can even delete downloads from Download Manager.

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