Facebook Comes to Google Glass

Facebook has made its way to Google Glass. Sharing to Facebook, that is, in the form of a third-party app appropriately named “Glass to Facebook.” They are so linked and competitive together. Once connected to your Facebook account, the app lets you share pictures taken with Glass to your Facebook account. The process is exceptionally similar to the how the current third-party Twitter client works for Glass, in that it makes your Facebook account a contact with which you share photos. It's worth noting that there’s currently a security alert on TesseractMobile’s website — the creator of the app — associated with the site’s root certificate. So install at your own risk. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Google’s Sergey Brin earlier this year that he couldn't wait for Glass, which means we might see an official Facebook app come down the pipeline at some point as well.

How to protect your WordPress from attack?

An continuum attack on WordPress-based websites has compromised more than 90,000 blogs, but there are simple ways to make sure your blog won't be next to fall and be safe from intruders. Brute-force attacks, as their name would suggest, are some of the least sophisticated hacks out there, rapidly cycling through common directory names, passwords and IP addresses in order to access private files through sheer dumb luck. The bad news is that such attacks happen to WordPress blogs tens of thousands of times per day; the good news is that stopping them cold is simplicity itself. An security firm called Sucuri examined the data logs from its own WordPress blog and discovered that between December 2012 and April 2013, hackers had launched almost 5 million brute-force attacks. The attempted hacks used very predictable patterns. To log into protected accounts, the hackers tried five usernames in overwhelming numbers: "admin," "test," "administrator," "Admin" and "root." The 90,000 WordPress blogs that got hacked and roped into joining the attacking botnet generally possessed easy-to-guess usernames or passwords, and their takeovers most likely could have been prevented with some creativity. If you use common usernames or passwords for WordPress login credentials — or for any other information you store on the Web — simply changing them to something uncommon will prevent the vast majority of brute-force attacks. Making them hard-to-guess will render you all but immune. One interesting bit of data that Sucuri gathered involved "common" passwords that didn't appear to be common at all. The attackers made thousands of brute-force attempts with passwords such as "#@F#GBH$R^JNEBSRVWRVW" and "RGA%BT%HBSERGAEEAHAEH." These strings of letters and symbols do not appear to have any kind of pattern, yet are too consistent and repetitive to be truly random. Both the Sucuri experts and the commenters on its blog posting were stumped, and feared that brute-force hackers might know something they don't. Our own efforts to discover the root of these supposedly common passwords came up dry. After breaking down the character strings into a binary code of 1s and 0s, we tried to translate them into other character formats, hoping that the passwords might mean something in non-Latin alphabets. Nothing recognizable came up. Although brute-force attacks are very easy to avoid. If you're going to get hacked, at least make sure that the attacker has to put some effort into it.

Infographic is Email Newsletters Effective?

Email marketing works – we all know that but just how much is your email newsletter worth to your organization? Would investing in a more strategic approach to email marketing drive greater engagement and higher revenues? The following infographic from iContact demonstrates how to truly understand the value of your email marketing list and how, by following email marketing best practices, you can increase the value of your email marketing campaigns. Via: iContact

Cybersecurity: An Issue of National Security

With the 2012 election cycle heating up, some hot-button issues among the candidates, like economic reform and healthcare, are already getting plenty of media attention. But one issue that may be a little under the radar is the issue of cybersecurity and its impact on the American consumer. It’s important for everyone to understand the potential for future cybersecurity legislation, how it affects your daily online life, and what you can do to protect yourself from potential cyber attacks.

Protecting Your Data Without Legislation

There are a number of cybersecurity solutions available for both individuals and large businesses, but it’s often hard to settle on a single solution. For instance, if your main security issues are tied up in identity theft, protection services such as Lifelock can be a possible solution. This platform monitors all things related to your identity (tracks your credit score, monitors your identity for potential theft threats, etc). On the flip side, you may be concerned with major data breaches at your company, such as a hacked firewall, or even a blog. The point is, you may need to use multiple outlets to ensure your online data is safe.

Why Cybersecurity is Such a Big Issue

When it comes to the threat of cyber attacks, fear is a big motivator. In recent years, the number of digitally based attacks dramatically increased as both government institutions and large, enterprise-level corporations have become the victims of major data breaches. The fear is that cyber terrorists will be able to take down infrastructure resources by compromising large datasets within some of our nation’s largest servers and datacenters. This includes everything from power grids to telecom resources to natural gas pipelines that are all managed using sophisticated data systems.

Cyber Politics: Obama and Romney on Cybersecurity Legislation

It is abundantly clear that both parties agree that something needs to be done about potential cyber threats. But as with any complex legislation, the two parties cannot come to agreement on legislation methods. To provide a little bit of context, the Obama administration recently released their 2012 party platform and dedicated roughly 200 words to the subject while the Republican platform gave the topic nearly twice as much space in their document.

• Obama – Obama made cybersecurity a major issue of his 2008 campaign. Though he’s had more than his fair share of near misses with cybersecurity legislation – particularly with the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 – he has made it clear that cyber-related attacks are a very real threat to this country’s security, according to Forbes.
• Romney – There has been a lot of heavy-handed criticism of the president’s cybersecurity efforts from the Republican side. Network World reports that the main critique is that the Obama administration’s cybersecurity efforts are costly, and rely far too much on defensive tactics rather than developing offensive deterrents for cyber terrorists.

These are not abstract ideas, but rather real decisions that can change the way we operate online. Since we live in an age where almost ever aspect of our lives are lived out in the digital realm, cybersecurity policies can be life changing.

Techonoly and teenager

Is technology good or bad for the modern teenager? There are very good arguments for each position, but we can not exclude the fact that today's teens are more wired than ever. Technology influence in every part of our life and we cant do anything to avoid this becouse we are the responsibile that the technology has developed so far and we cant stop it cos our life is so much easyr now. People aged 18-34 have an average of 319 online connections, and the number is still growing very fast. Every young now has his own telephone and his own pc. The virtual life is growing vey fast and this is very dangerous. We can create an ilusion that in reality it does not exist. This is the conseguence if you use so much the computer. Even the telephone, that i admit that is very useful in our life, is such a pain in the a..(sorry about the word). When you want to relax the ring is so aggravating. I think that is more educative than the teenager communicate and play with each other than that with a computer. The information between teenager circulate through a computer than personaly. A study shows that 67% of experts predict that as they grow up, teens will continue to share information online to stay connected. Today's teens are the firt generation to have no memory of life before cell phones and the internet. What does this generation of digital natives look like? Teens are self-define as a generation that is marked by technology use. In conclusion we can say that the technology is good while it cant overcome to you.

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