Ryan Collins

Facebook’s new privacy settings

// December 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Online Tools, RC Tips, Security

photo credit: ekurvine

Facebook has begun rolling out new settings for who can see your Facebook profile and what they can see on your profile. I suggest you double-check what is viewable about you. I try to keep my personal FB totally separate from my Facebook Page, so my profile is pretty much locked down. Over at Digital Inspiration they’ve written an article on How to Cross-Check Your Facebook Privacy Settings.

Portable blogging

// November 11th, 2008 // No Comments » // Mobile Computing, Security

I’m testing out a mobile blogging client for my Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone, MoBlog. It appears to work ok, including allowing me to insert an image from my phone. I’ll post a longer review once I’ve had more time to play with it.

Beware of that Firewire port!

// March 6th, 2008 // No Comments » // Security

There is a new technique that allows an attacker to unlock a Windows machine or login without a password. This vulnerability also affects OS X. Right now the hack currently requires a Linux laptop, but it could conceivably make its way to modified iPods.

To protect yourself you’ll need to disable Firewire in your PC BIOS, or on the Mac you will need to set the Open Firmware password.