Weekend in Review: July 16-18, 2010

I know I’ve been promising to blog about this past weekend but honestly, so much has happened and so much still needs to be done. So, sorry for the delay! I guess I will start my weekend on Thursday; you will need to know Thursday’s events to understand Saturday’s events. Thursday night Migo’s friend from [...]

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The “Upitty” people that go to Starbucks.

Everyone who knows me knows that I got to Starbucks a lot, definitely more than I should. The obvious reason is the price of their beverages, but you know what? I thoroughly enjoy my Cafe Vanilla Frappuccino and haven’t been able to find anything that even remotely compares to that heavily caloried goodness. Whole Milk [...]

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Keys to a Secure Website – Passwords

Today’s Topic: Passwords Throughout this week I will be posting some tips on how to keep your website (and other accounts) as secure as possible from malicious activity or unwanted intruders. The first topic I am going to discuss is by far the easiest and most commonly use way of account exploitation: Easy Passwords. With [...]

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[Security Warning] Use FireFox? Update to 3.6.2 Now.

Mozilla has pushed out an update for a major security whole within the browser, announced March 22, 2010. Researcher Evgeny Legerov of Intevydis reported the issue: …The WOFF decoder contains an integer overflow in a font decompression routine. This flaw could result in too small a memory buffer being allocated to store a downloadable font. [...]

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Fisher Price Develops iPhone Apps for 2-5 Year Olds

Yes, you read that correctly. Fisher Price has teamed with IDEO to develop and launch iPhone games for children between the ages of 2 and 5. The games so far developed and available for purchase are: See ‘N Say: A virtual version of the real thing. Little People Farm: Farmville for Tots? Chatter Telephone: Children [...]

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[Malware Warning] Facebook Password Reset E-mails

Yet another warning about Facebook. This week (and weeks to come maybe?) many people around the world have received an e-mail message supposedly from Facebook with a message that their user password has been reset and attached to the e-mail is a .zip file. DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT My fiance’ received such a message [...]

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