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Scammers are a clever bunch. They’re always coming up with ways to try and separate you from your cash. Lately it involves hacking Facebook accounts and then scamming friends of the victim into sending them money. The folks over at The Consumerist have two recent examples of the scam being thwarted by vigilant would-be victims: . . . → Read More: Beware friends asking for emergency money via Facebook chat. 
Luuuuucccyyy! You got some 'splanin' to do! Bought a Samsung computer recently? Might want to run a malware check on it as it appears they may be intentionally installing a keylogger on it without telling you. Security consultant Mohamed Hassan has written an article for Network World that explains how he discovered the software . . . → Read More: [UPDATED] Samsung appears to be installing keyloggers on new computers they sell. Watch this ad made by Alex Roman for Grupo Cosentino’s Silestone brand counter tops and see if you can pick out which parts are real and which are CGI:
Can you tell which is which? I’ll put the answer after the jump… . . . → Read More: Is it real or CGI? I like to consider myself to be a wired individual, but even though I grew up alongside the technology that is now commonplace these days I am nowhere near as wired as some of the kids who have never known anything other than the highly digital world we have today. I’m not even that . . . → Read More: Frontline looks at the “Digital Nation.” What a sad fucking joke the Transportation Security Administration has turned out to be. Not only they do engage in security theater that does little to nothing in preventing actual threats, not only have they removed any desire I might have had to fly anywhere anytime soon, but now they’ve gone and posted their entire . . . → Read More: The TSA incompetently posts its secrets on the Internet. As you can see, if you’ve stopped by the site instead of reading its RSS feed, I’ve got a half-assed port of the old SEB template moved over to WordPress. It’s missing a few things here and there, but it appears to be functional so I wanted to try it on the live site and . . . → Read More: Preliminary SEB templates are in place. No, not on the live site. I’ve set up a test blog with some old SEB content in it and I’ve been working on porting the old template over from ExpressionEngine. So far I’ve got it working pretty well albeit with some differences between them, but it’s still not quite ready for prime time. The . . . → Read More: Playing with SEB’s templates. I’ve mentioned before that I’m currently using the Atahualpa theme for SEB because it’s the most configurable one I’ve found outside of Thesis. The latter of which costs money while the former does not, though they do accept donations. Athualpa has a few annoying quirks, but it is amazingly malleable so working with it is . . . → Read More: I’ll be messing around with SEB’s theme soon. As if you really needed yet another reason to make sure your computer is patched and you have a decent anti-virus solution installed, now comes word that an infected PC could lead to you being charged for having child pornography: An Associated Press investigation found cases in which innocent people have been branded as pedophiles . . . → Read More: Viruses can infect your PC with child porn. Microsoft entered the free anti-virus utility arena today with the release of Microsoft Security Essentials: Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up . . . → Read More: Trying out Microsoft Security Essentials. |
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