Category Archives: Current Events
Current events: Microsoft offers money for catching Conficker virus creator
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
Current Events: $9 million ATM scam
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
Current Event : Privacy is a joke
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
Current Events: Monster.com data breach
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
Private information ***LIKE NEW***
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
Current Event: Tracking BitTorrent
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
Current Event – Mexico Plans to Fingerprint Cell phone Users
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
Illegal file transfer using BitTorrent protocol
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
Current Event – FAA, Kaiser Permanente Security Breaches; Tens of Thousands of Names Compromised
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
Current Event: Kaspersky Hacked
Kaspersky, an Antivirus vendor and Internet Security Lab, recently fell victim to an internet hacker using an SQL-injection attack. The attack compromised data in all databases accessible to the web server. According to the hacker, “Alter one of the parameters … Continue reading