Yearly Archives: 2009

Current Event : Privacy is a joke

Posted on February 13, 2009 by kosh

How many of you have received letters from your banks about a ‘revised’ privacy policy? Have you even bothered to read through this revised policy information? And the .000001% percent of you that have, have you ever found anything objectionable … Continue reading →

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Current Events: Monster.com data breach

Posted on February 13, 2009 by dravir

  According to MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29017452/), Monster.com along with USAJobs.com (which monster’s parent company runs) was breached, resulting in the theft of user ID’s, passwords, email addresses, names and phone numbers.  The number of records stolen was not disclosed, nor were … Continue reading →

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Private information ***LIKE NEW***

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Frung

Ever considered ‘recycling’ your computer without thoroughly wiping your hard drive first? Don’t. A recent study suggests that up to 40% of hard drives that end up on eBay and aren’t explicitly marked as erased may contain easily recoverable data … Continue reading →

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Current Event: Safety of Encryption from future Quantum Computers

Posted on February 12, 2009 by sunetrad

All of us feel a certain kind of safety when we are dealing with credit cards, online banking and any other transaction or process which should be secure because we know that our personal information is protected by cryptographic systems. … Continue reading →

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Current Event: Tracking BitTorrent

Posted on February 12, 2009 by nhunt

The Air Force Institute of Technology recently announced a new technique for “detecting and tracking illegal content transferred using the BitTorrent file-trading protocol.” The authors claim their technique differs from previous attempts, because it is does not change any of … Continue reading →

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Security Review: Poker Game

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Father_Of_1000000

A game of poker can be played for fun or money. The game itself uses low tech equipments, and the two main ones are a standard deck of cards and playing chips of different colors to represent different amounts of … Continue reading →

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Current Event – Mexico Plans to Fingerprint Cell phone Users

Posted on February 12, 2009 by tchan

According to a recent article, Mexico plans to start fingerprinting all cell phone users. A new law will give Mexico cell phone providers a year to create a database with their customer’s information including fingerprints. Providers would also have to … Continue reading →

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Illegal file transfer using BitTorrent protocol

Posted on February 12, 2009 by devynp

BitTorrent has been popularly used for transferring files illegally because it reduces a vast amount of networking bandwidth that would have been required. The way it works is that users can connect to each other directly to send and receive … Continue reading →

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Current Event – FAA, Kaiser Permanente Security Breaches; Tens of Thousands of Names Compromised

Posted on February 10, 2009 by cxlt

In another of a long line of high-profile security breaches both in and out of the government recently, the Federal Aviation Administration has announced that in the course of a breach of their computer system, over 45,000 employee names – … Continue reading →

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Facebook Opens Status API

Posted on February 10, 2009 by lisa89

“Facebook is slowly tearing down the wall around its silo and is starting to expose more of its data to the outside” (From Facebook Opens Up: Lets Developers Access Status Updates, Notes, Links, and Videos). Now Facebook allows the third-party … Continue reading →

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