once were journalists
Posted in digression, internet on Jan 23rd, 2010
**Updated below**
I got a worrying email last night from a friend and ex-colleague, letting me know that he’d had a phishing message purportedly from my Last.FM account.
Oops, we both thought – I’d been hacked. I went in and changed my password.
I subsequently discovered an email to me ‘from’ another colleague that also looks very much [...]
Posted in internet, journalism, writing on May 1st, 2008
Hi, it’s 2008.
Just wanted to remind you, because BBC News thinks it’s discovered a security flaw in Facebook applications. Yes, apparently they can gain access to your and your friends’ profile information, so a malicious application could pose as a legitimate one and harvest profile details, even if they’re not public.
I had to double-check the [...]
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