If you have an account at Etsy, either for selling or buying, I suggest you log in, go to settings, and change your privacy settings. Everything you do (buy, sell, rate) is now publicly viewable and is being logged in search engines, including associating your real life name (if entered) with your username. internet, psa, etsy, info, links, teh intarwebs

Apparently, and as far as I can tell this's true, for a while GMail had a security hole that hackers were able to take advantage of. Specifically, the hole allowed hackers to steal your GMail password, and alter the filters in your GMail account, so that it would forward and delete emails with certain subject lines or keywords, so that you'd never ( Read more... )

If you have ever been employed by Johns Hopkins University, or been a patient at the JHU Hospital, there is a chance that personally identifying info about you has been stolen. Nine backup tapes containing the info were "misplaced" en route to being further backed up, and their best guess is that a trash collector picked them up, but they're not ( Read more... )