Cool new snoop tool for HR people

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Dutch Valleywag reader Dirk Dijksma has come up with a clever twist on the old metasearch engine: He's collected all the sites that HR people use to suss out job applicants, and put them into one page called CVGadget with expanding/collapsing widgets that only show the top few of each ...

Facebook bug leaks members’ birthday data

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

A glitch in a test version of Facebook's Web site inadvertently exposed the birthdays of Facebook's 80 million members this week. The bug was discovered over the weekend by Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos. While checking out Facebook's new design, Cluley noticed that the birth dates of some ...

YouTube, Viacom agree to mask viewer data

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Viacom and other copyright holders have agreed to let YouTube mask user IDs and Internet addresses when Google Inc.'s online video site hands over viewership records in a $1 billion lawsuit accusing YouTube of enabling copyright infringement. A federal judge ordered the database produced in a July 1 ruling widely ...

IronKey USB key has military grade encryption

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Plenty of USB storage keys are on the market, but Ironkey is the first to use military level encryption. Sold in 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB sizes, the key features a processor called the Cryptochip, which uses Public Key Cryptography ciphers linked to an online account to create encryption keys on ...