Web Security

"From your lips to God's ears" was not an expression used much by my family. Maybe that's why I have trouble keeping my mouth shut. But even I know the social networking corollary: "From your fingers to Google's cache."

If you've done a web search for something lately, you may have noticed that posts to the Twitter service are showing up more and more frequently. And you're going to see them a lot more. Google and Microsoft have already bought a direct connection into Twitter's service, giving them "tweets" as they're posted by users. 

How do you pick the passwords you use online? It seems a lot of people just look at the top left side of their keyboard, and there it is.  An analysis of passwords by a security firm recently found that "123456" was the most popular password used for one social networking site.

With yet another set of high-profile cyber-attacks under way, now is the time to make sure your security patches are in order and your security settings are set high.  Previously unpatched holes in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Adobe's Reader and Acrobat software have been used to attack a number of Internet sites, including Google.

You probably knew that Facebook can embarrass you. But the social networking site is also a top target for hackers trying to steal personal information and spread computer viruses.Hackers have been drawn to Facebook like flies to sugar because of the many opportunites to use "social engineering" to get people to give away personal information or download something nasty to their computer.