How One Bit of Stupidity Could Have Brought Down a Multi-Million Dollar Media Company

Peter Shankman shares his experience on an airplane when he was sitting next to a gentleman who was viewing confidential company information. Shankman. He provided tips on how to avoid having private information from being hacked. Here's the article.

Eggs in a basket

The recent break-in and subsequent spams from companies using Epsilon services for email marketing has Greg Lambert at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog musing about the risks and benefits of putting your virtual eggs in the same virtual basket.

Instant price quotes from Amazon

I saw a reference to this in The Virtual Chase today. Amazon.com is now offering a service to text a product name, UPC, or ISBN to 262966 from your cell phone and get an almost instant text message back with their price and other information.

More details in this press release: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=NewsArticle&id=1124741

Your Private Facebook Pages May Not Be Private

Security researchers gained access into Private Facebook Pages with unusual search strings to get around search restrictions where "search preferences, or "search settings" were not changed.

Even if the page was marked private, by not changing the "search settings," spiders were able to index and catalog the pages.

One of the search strings reported in Wired include "Women interested in Women." Facebook claims that a change has been made, but this breach has been known since September 2006.

http://www.wired.com/software/webservices/news/2007/06/facebookprivacysearch