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Welcome to this morning's edition of 'First To Know,' a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Change Your LinkedIn Password Right Now!
6.5 million encrypted LinkedIn passwords have leaked, reports Norwegian IT site Dagens IT (found via The Next Web).
The passwords were shared via a Russian hacker site, and security researcher Per Thorsheim confirms that the leak is legit.
LinkedIn hasn't offered any statement on the incident at the time of this writing, but we would strongly suggest changing your password.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Watch This If You Have Completely Ruined Your iPhone Settings
With new apps, jailbreaking or just fiddling with your phone, your iPhone settings can be easily altered.
Sometimes this can help, but maybe you just want everything back to normal.
Luckily, getting your iPhone back to its default settings is just as easy as changing them.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
More Sneaky Business From Google: It Bypasses Internet Explorer Privacy Settings, Too
Google does not honor a default privacy setting in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 Web browser, but instead uses a trick to get around it.
IE head Dean Hachamovich says Microsoft started looking into this last week after news broke that Google was bypassing the default privacy settings in the Safari Web browser on iPhones and iPads. Google was caught by the Wall Street Journal and stopped playing that particular trick, but went on the offensive to try and explain its behavior away.
Monday, January 9, 2012
New website fixes all your privacy settings
via msnbc.msn.com
A new website eases the burden of figuring out what permissions you've given up in your Facebook, Twitter or Flickr accounts, and helps you revoke any you feel might be too invasive or could land you and your online data in danger.
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