F-Secure a Finnish anti-virus vendor has come out and stated that Adobe Reader is so insecure and there have been so many recent vulnerabilities to show up, they recommend finding an alternative application to handle PDF files. I have been preaching this to my clients and co-workers for at least the last 6 months. I agree with them totally and have switched every computer I come into contact with to Foxit Reader. It's a much smaller quicker application, totally free and you can do editin... Read Full Story
Here is a neat idea on a way to cripple spam-bots. The people at Office Of Strategic Influence have created a way to generate random e-mail addresses. So that when a spammer hits your website and tries to harvest e-mails, it floods their server with bogus addresses. Nice idea if it works. If it cuts down on spam, I'm all for it. The link below takes you to the page where you can pick up the code necessary to input into your website or blog:This Link Kills SpamHosted on: Office Of Strategic In... Read Full Story
After watching the previous video, you might want to know of a good way that you can lock your personal information away from prying eyes. Just like a personal file proof safe in your house, this prevents the inadvertent compromise situation. Someone gets access to your computer and is able to find some file on your computer with personal information, i.e. a tax record, birth certificate, or anything that has your social security number, passwords etc.My Lockbox is a freeware program that all... Read Full Story
Identity theft rose by nearly 25 percent last year in the United States, according to a new report released today. The 2009 Identity Fraud Survey Report by Javelin Strategy & Research shows that the number of identity fraud victims increased 22 percent to 9.9 million people being hit, at a total cost of $48 billion.According to James Van Dyke, president and founder of Javelin, this is the first year since the report began in 2004 that the numbers have gone up. "The industry was surprised at t... Read Full Story
New study claims Cross-Site Scripting attacks are all over the place. Should we be afraid?internetnews.com: We all know that some Web sites suffer from security vulnerabilities -- but 90 percent of them?In a new report, security researcher Whitehat Security said it found a staggering nine out of 10 Web sites have some type of serious vulnerability that a hacker could potentially exploit.The study, which examined more than 600 sites including those of Fortune 500 firms, found a number of diffe... Read Full Story
If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.The idea being that if you turn on your cable box, it recognizes you and pulls up shows already in your profile or makes recommendations. If parents are watching TV with th... Read Full Story
Found on PogoWasRight.org: One California county may be facing a lawsuit by former librarian Brenda Biesterfeld, who says she was fired after alerting authorities that a patron was viewing child pornography on library computers.A librarian assistant at the Lindsay Library, Biesterfeld was on the job late last month when she noticed 39-year-old Donny Chrisler downloading child porn on library computers. Biesterfeld told her supervisor Judi Hill, who instructed her to issue Chrisler a warning. ... Read Full Story
The Dutch government has issued a warning about the security of access keys that are based on the widely used Mifare Classic RFID chip.Government institutions plan to take "additional security measures to safeguard security, " Guusje ter Horst, minister of interior affairs, wrote in a letter to parliament on Wednesday.NXP developed the Mifare Classic RFID (radio frequency identification) chip, which is used in 2 million Dutch building access passes, said ter Horst. One billion passes with the... Read Full Story
From Gulfnews.com: Watching old movies makes me sad. I'm inevitably reminded of a kindlier, gentler world without cameras that spy on populations, where overseas travelling was pleasurable and privacy was an individual's right.Nowadays, states are usurping responsibilities that are rightfully those of their citizens. Western so-called democracies, in particular, are supposed to have governments that are servants of the people, whereas, in fact, the opposite is true. Under the guise of doing w... Read Full Story
