Web Security

When you travel, whether it's  for a vacation or work,  the last thing that may be on your mind is the threats posed to your privacy (other than the trip through the TSA body scanner).  But there are ways that you may be leaving yourself open to loss of personal information that you might not even suspect.

Time (and technology) continue to march forward, and it's time for New Years resolutions again.  This year, you should include some technology-related resolutions that take advantage of  "cloud" applications—software that uses the power of Internet-based servers to deliver services to your PC or mobile gadget—to to make your life simpler and better in 2011. Here are some tips on resolutions you should keep in the coming year:

A new 'plugin' program for the Firefox web browser has gotten the attention of a lot of people in the technology world recently.  And that attention isn't exactly positive.  The plugin, called Firesheep, turns the web browser into a powerful tool for eavesdropping on the allegedly "secure" web site sessions running on other computers on a a WiFi network.  

Twitter, the "micro-blogging" and social networking service, has developed its own odd bits of etiquette. One of those is how to respond to being "followed" by someone.

Often, when a person starts following someone's stream of "tweets", the person being followed returns the favor. Some add-ons to Twitter even let you automatically "follow back" anyone who follows you.