Daily Archives: February 13, 2009

Current events: Microsoft offers money for catching Conficker virus creator

Posted on February 13, 2009 by sal

I didn’t pay much attention to the event mentioned earlier about Conficker virus, until this new event related to that event arose – after all, is it such a rare occasion being infected by a virus. To remind you, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous | 3 Comments

Security Review: HomeLink Universal Transceiver

Posted on February 13, 2009 by vincez

The HomeLink Universal Transceiver is a device that, like a universal remote, can record the output of a wide variety of garage door openers and home automation control systems and emulate the output for future use. When used as advertised, … Continue reading →

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Security Review : Add-ons

Posted on February 13, 2009 by kosh

An add-on is a simple plugin that you use, say for firefox, to let you do your work more easily. This also lets you customize the browser in ways that do not affect the productivity of other people. Add-ons are … Continue reading →

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Current Events: $9 million ATM scam

Posted on February 13, 2009 by elenau

  The FBI is investigating an ATM scam that has occurred within a 30 minute period on November 8th. About 130 different ATM machines have been accessed to withdraw a total of about $9 million dollars. The scam hit 49 … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Privacy | 6 Comments

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 →

Posted in Current Events, Physical Security, Privacy | 3 Comments