Dan Kaminsky is a 7 year veteran of Black Hat and Defcon in Vegas, and he was pretty much a fixture when I was there last year. His performance during Friday nights’ TCP/IP drinking game was hilarious, and his talk the next morning even more so. This year he’s presenting info on the [...]

In another scary move, Microsoft is behind a recent patent for an “advertising framework” that appears to be little more than an adware application on steriods. Coupled with another patent that aims to use “context data” from your hard drive to show you advertisements and “apportion and credit advertising revenue” to ad suppliers in [...]

In this day and age security is often OVER emphasised in the guise of erroring on the side of caution (cue to pictures of shoeless passengers muddling through security checkpoints). I know people will say ‘better safe than sorry’, but when things like this happen, it makes you question if any of this [...]

Since I support this idea I’m reposting it from Gizmodo.com. “Alright, we’ve been following the RIAA’s increasingly frequent affronts to privacy and free speech lately, and it’s about time we stopped merely bitching and moaning and did something about it. The RIAA has the power to shift public policy and to alter the direction [...]

A new report tells us that the FBI has lost 160 laptops in the last 44 months!  “Perhaps most troubling,” says the report, “the FBI could not determine in many cases whether the lost or stolen laptop computers contained sensitive or classified information. Such information may include case information, personal identifying information, or classified information [...]

Ah, nothing new, just another big corporation leaking credit card and issuers personal data. “The TJX Companies, a large retailer that operates more than 2,000 retail stores under brands such as Bob’s Stores, HomeGoods, Marshalls, T.J. Maxx and A.J. Wright, said on Wednesday that it suffered a massive computer breach on a portion of [...]

More Private Data Is Burgled From Government Than Hacked While the news aims to spread fear that ‘hackers’ are going to steal your identity, numbers show that they really should be fearful of our government. “America’s universities admit that, in the first half of 2006, they let a million Social Security numbers [...]

In July, two states will open up an ‘opt-out’ list to prohibit sending commercial email to children’s email addresses which are registered. ”New state laws in Michigan and Utah will prohibit sending commercial email to children’s email addresses which are registered with the states’ new ‘Do not email’ lists. Officials in both states have [...]

An interesting survey of 332 IT “executives” and managers by Forrester Research shows their concerns with outgoing email and IM data. Their take:
25% of outbound E-mails contain content that poses a legal, financial, or regulatory risk36% of companies employ staff to read or analyze outbound E-mail
47% intend to deploy technology for monitoring Web mail [...]

Got another PayPay phishing email today, my filters caught it no problem, so now let’s pollute their database of username and passwords. Here’s the direct link to the
Phishfighting page that will flood the phisher’s site with bogus usernames and passwords. If you’re using Firefox I recommend center clicking on the link 5 times [...]