Microsoft: 0 Day Exploit Targeting Word, Outlook Read and Fix

Microsoft warned today that attackers are exploiting a previously unknown security hole in Microsoft Word that can be used to foist malicious code if users open a specially crafted text file, or merely preview the message in Microsoft Outlook. In a notice published today, Microsoft advised: “Microsoft is aware of a vulnerability affecting supported versions […]

How to keep companies from tracking you online — for good for non techies

By Mandi Woodruff March 25, 2014 4:48 PM Yahoo Finance Good start the article is easy to follow http://finance.yahoo.com/news/keep-data-brokers-from-tracking-you-online-anonymously-202256230.html

Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Apple also claim right to read user emails

Like Microsoft, other webmail giants all reserve the right to read user emails, if ‘deemed necessary’ Alex Hern theguardian.com, Friday 21 March 2014 13.08 EDT Microsoft is not unique in claiming the right to read users’ emails – Apple, Yahoo and Google all reserve that right as well, the Guardian has determined. The broad rights […]

Microsoft admits reading Hotmail inbox of blogger – BBC News

Yahoo, Google and Apple also claim right to read user emails Like Microsoft, other webmail giants all reserve the right to read user emails, if ‘deemed necessary’ Microsoft on Thursday scrambled to head off a privacy storm after it was revealed that the software company had searched through the private email of a blogger it […]

Google faces lawsuit over email scanning and student data

By Alex Hern theguardian.com, Wednesday 19 March 2014 13.56 EDT Google’s Apps for Education may violate US laws over handling of students’ data Google: don’t expect privacy when sending to Google/Mail Apps/ Gmail Google faces a lawsuit in California over whether bulk scanning of emails to deliver advertisements breaches state and federal wiretap laws. In […]