True tech confessions: Sinners and winners

	Barbra Streisand, the Internet, and you | Windows 8 contacts cache exposes personal data
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	True tech confessions II: Sinners and winners We all make mistakes. But when you work in IT, those errors can quickly go public. If you've never emailed profanities to 2,500 of your customers or sent a love note to colleagues at a dozen companies, consider yourself lucky. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Remotely manage with LogMeIn Central Central's web-based management console lets you deploy software, proactively monitor and automate tasks. You can even apply all Windows Updates at the same time to keep systems up-to-date and secure. Try it free for 30 days. In this Issue Barbra Streisand, the Internet, and you Windows 8 contacts cache exposes personal data Apple engineering mistake exposes clear-text passwords for Lion WHITE PAPER: Itrezzo Data Governance Checklist Companies need to ensure that employees can access critical contact data on their mobile devices to reach colleagues, no matter what. This paper details an approach to keep contact data accurately updated with a rapid payback and an ROI of typically 100% and 1,500%. View Now Barbra Streisand, the Internet, and you You may be aware of a phenomenon called the Streisand effect. It's named after Babs, of course, when she flipped her lid over the fact that a picture of her Malibu beach house was among over 12,000 photos taken of the California coastline back in 2003 during a government-sanctioned project to document coastal erosion. She sued everyone she could and tried to get the picture removed from the Internet -- which we all know is impossible. Read More Windows 8 contacts cache exposes personal data As you probably know, Windows 8 connects with all sorts of networks, social and otherwise. The Metro Mail app has built-in hooks for Hotmail, Gmail, and Exchange; Metro Photos links to Facebook and Flickr; the Metro People app (which stores contacts) can pull data from Hotmail, Gmail, Exchange, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. All you have to do is log on to Windows 8 with a Microsoft account, then go out and connect the online dots. Read More Apple engineering mistake exposes clear-text passwords for Lion Apple's latest update to OS X contains a dangerous programming error that reveals the passwords for material stored in the first version of FileVault, the company's encryption technology, a software consultant said. David I. Emery wrote on Cryptome that a debugging switch inadvertently left on in the current release of Lion, version 10.7.3, records in clear text the password needed to open the folder encrypted by the older version of FileVault. Read More
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