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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. The U.S. Government has been pushing what they consider a better passport since August 2007. It contains a contactless smart card in the back cover that contains the same data about you as what is printed in the passport itself. The idea is that this is supposed to make passport forgery impossible for the evil-doers . . . → Read More: The security chip in that fancy new U.S. Passport? It’s made in Thailand. 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 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. People on the terrorist watch list can’t fly on airplanes, but they can still buy guns and explosives?!? From February 2004 to February 2009, 963 background checks using the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System “resulted in valid matches with terrorist watch list records; of these matches, approximately 90 percent were allowed to . . . → Read More: So let me get this straight… There’s been a lot of articles over on The Consumerist about ATM skimming, how it’s done, and how you can protect yourself. Today they linked to a clip from a UK show called The Real Hustle that lays out exactly how the scam is done. I’m not sure if the increase in the number of . . . → Read More: How ATM skimming is done. One of the features of the newer iPhone’s and Google Android based cellphones allow the phone, and any applications you’re running on it, to determine where you are to varying degrees of precision. Using a combination of cell towers (500 meters), Wi-Fi (30 meters), and GPS (10 meters) and various software packages that make use . . . → Read More: Wired’s Mathew Honan experiments with Location-Aware software. The folks over at philosecurity.org have a great interview with an adware author article that anyone using Windows who’s interested in keeping the PC secure should read. Matt Knox is a developer who worked for a rather notorious adware company called Direct Revenue for awhile. In the course of the interview he discusses why he . . . → Read More: The battle to keep adware on your PC. |
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