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This afternoon I volunteered at the local field office in South St. Louis for Barack Obama. When I got there there was a flurry of activity, and I could tell people were there because they wanted to be. As we waited for others to show up to get started, I saw a pile [...]

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Security researcher Dan Kaminsky
Thursday, 2 Aug, 2007 – 12:55 | One Comment
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky

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 [...]

All your data are belong to Microsoft
Tuesday, 31 Jul, 2007 – 11:33 | 2 Comments
All your data are belong to Microsoft

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 [...]

Somebody set up us the bomb
Friday, 2 Mar, 2007 – 13:47 | No Comment
Somebody set up us the bomb

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 [...]

Boycott the RIAA in March
Friday, 23 Feb, 2007 – 15:40 | 2 Comments
Boycott the RIAA in March

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 [...]

FBI lost 160 laptops in last 44 months
Tuesday, 13 Feb, 2007 – 10:36 | One Comment
FBI lost 160 laptops in last 44 months

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 [...]

TJX Companies data breach reveals credit card data
Friday, 19 Jan, 2007 – 12:59 | 2 Comments
TJX Companies data breach reveals credit card data

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 [...]

Personal info more likely to be stolen from the Government than hacked
Tuesday, 20 Jun, 2006 – 15:43 | One Comment
Personal info more likely to be stolen from the Government than hacked

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 [...]

‘Do not email’ registries for children
Wednesday, 8 Mar, 2006 – 19:52 | 2 Comments
‘Do not email’ registries for children

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 [...]

Rating the risks
Monday, 6 Feb, 2006 – 18:46 | 2 Comments
Rating the risks

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 [...]

Please verify your account
Friday, 25 Nov, 2005 – 14:06 | 4 Comments
Please verify your account

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 [...]