Time for Samsung users to switch to iPhone?  It’s a scary headline that random pics from your phone can be sent to random people in your contacts.  Still scary that you don’t know unless that person tells you.  I would consider this a HUGE security issue.  Many people keep confidential information in their phone as pics, including things like credit cards or passwords, not to mention personal pics.

  Protect the nudes

Source: Samsung phones are spontaneously texting users’ photos to random contacts without their permission – The Verge

Keep your windows up to date or risk infection.  This critical bug could allow a hacker to gain control of your system.  The bug effects all version of Windows from XP on including the beta for Windows 8 as yet unreleased. See the article here: Critical Windows bug could make worm meat of millions of high-value machines. Here is the Bug report and Microsoft’s Solution: CVE-2012-0002: A Closer Look at MS12-020’s Critical Issue.  

There is an interesting bug in iMessage.  Aparently some information survives a wipe and new users can still send and receive iMessages as the original owner. These articles talk about stolen phones, but what about a used phone you sold or gifted?  Good Question.  What’s the answer? Here are a few Articles on the matter that will get you closer to understanding. Stolen iPhone? Your iMessages May Still Be Going To The Wrong Place | Gadget Lab | Wired.com. Stolen, remote-wiped iPhones still get owners iMessages • The Register.