Welcome to a world where your online identity, and a lot about your personal life, goes around and around to the highest bidder. If you’re one of the 70 million people who used Myspace.com, your profile now belongs to the targeted advertising network that bought them on June 29, 2011, Specific Media. If you don’t [...]
June, 2011
Heads Up, Geeks and Gamers: Bioware is the Latest Data Breach Victim
It’s a hard life being a gamer nowadays with all these data breaches: first Epsilon, then Playstation Network, and now Bioware. The well-loved gaming company broke news of the breach this morning to their registered users, warning that “hackers may have obtained information such as user account names and passwords, email addresses, and birth dates [...]
Your Digital Afterlife: 6 Steps You Need To Take Today To Manage Your Cyber Assets When You Are Gone
Our digital footprint will live on when we’re gone. Even though we’ve got another 35 years until the singularity (or so says Raymond Kurzweil), all of us will experience a sort of afterlife through our Facebook posts, tweets, article comments, email accounts, online games, and blogs, a trail that grows longer and more complex as [...]