My Computer has been Compromised, Again

That’s a log file.

What it means: there’s something in my laptop, that’s regularly taking screenshots of both my desktop, and login screen.

See the last entry, Saturday at midnight? Wasn’t even home, laptop had been closed for hours. Figure that one out.

Considering how careful I am, well, good to know I attract the best. I guess.

I can pretty much guarantee you will never again see a log like this.

If you want to see what’s happening inside your Mac, go > Applications > Utilities > Console

Logs for everything are found there.

 

 

Change Your Yahoo Password Right Now

Yahoo! had a major security breach yesterday.  

An estimated 450,000 passwords were stolen.  

The passwords were stored on Yahoo!’s servers in plaintext, meaning, not encrypted, could have been kept safer.  Expect Yahoo! to take some heat for that, which is good, because doing that is dumb.

Some outlets are reporting 100,000+ Gmail, 50,000+ Hotmail accounts, and more were part of the stolen data.  Others are saying the accounts are old, only 5% are in use.

Sucuri Labs has created a way to check if your email was affected, click here.

I recommend you change your password regardless;

it’s doubtful we’re getting the whole story.

Remember too, Flickr and Yahoo are the same thing.

Further reading:

Gizmodo

Mashable

CNN