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Social Media Security on the Streetwise Security Zone Podcast

Late last week I was a guest on the Streetwise Security Zone Podcast talking about my Facebook Privacy & Security guide, social media security as well as some other interesting security topics. I highly recommend you check out some of the great things that Scott Wright has put together. He has built a security community […]

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What’s behind that short URL?

There was a good post over at ThreatChaos the other day about a new Firefox extension which will automatically show you the real URL’s of shortened URL’s. What is URL shortening? For example…this long URL: http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=washington+dc&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.764224,56.25&ie=UTF8&ll=38.905996,-77.023773&spn=0.25915,0.439453&z=11&g=washington+dc&iwloc=addr becomes… http://tinyurl.com/9lum95 By using a service like Tinyurl or one of the many other sites available you can easily

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