In his weekly radio address, President Obama announced that he has appointed Aneesh Chopra as the country’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO).  Chopra will be working closely with the nation’s first CIO, Vivek Kundra, to continue to enhance  information security and privacy across the federal government, direct policy, oversee federal technology spending, and oversee government enterprise [...]

F-Secure has information regarding a cross-site scripting worm spreading in Twitter profiles for several hours last night. Twitter users started reporting that their profile had sent Twitter messages without their knowledge. Messages looked like this:   Many users thought the ‘tweets’ were legitimate communications from trusted friends and clicked on the link to ’stalk daily’. That caused [...]

Some of you are old enough to remember Burger King’s Where’s the Beef commercial from the 1980s. The commercial features three old ladies looking at an exaggeratedly large hamburger bun with a tiny hockey puck of a hamburger. Famously crabby Clara Peller, exclaims “Where is the Beef?” Now, the Web 2.0 folks are asking ‘where [...]

Do you know what your kids are doing on the Internet? Are your kids uploading pictures to social networking sites, or uploading videos to sites like You Tube? No big deal? Don’t ask, don’t tell? Think again parents…  The London Times reports an alarming trend with teenagers and tweens emailing and texting suggestive messages and pictures. What started out as [...]

The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this week that Lohan gave Facebook folks an earful (ironically on MySpace) for supposedly erroneously disabling her real account. Celebrities often have difficulties securing their online identities. This was not another case of mistaken identity, this was a case of violating the TOS. Facebook most likely disabled her account [...]