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- Daily Mail employee data stolen on laptop
- A laptop containing confidential information belonging to employees and suppliers of UK newspaper, the Daily Mail, was stolen. According to the Guardian, the missing data consists of name, address, bank account number and bank sort code belonging to affected staff. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Q'n'A: Are Youtube users are royally screwed?
- I've been reading the headlines today, and the main headlines on most of the top technology websites are about the YouTube/Google/Viacom saga. I'd like to call this: Youglecomgate, a potentially volatile situation hovers over the midst of everyone who has been on YouTube ever, so that's probably the majority of...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Antivirus vendor introducing virtual keyboard for secure Ebanking
- Kaspersky's most recent product launch of the Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, is featuring a virtual keyboard "a secure pop-up that enables logins, passwords, bank card details and other important personal information to be entered safely to prevent the theft of confidential information" aiming to protect users from keyloggers, and consequently...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Rainy Day Budget (zip)
- Keeping a budget and controlling your spending can have great benefits, including avoiding serious debt problems such as bankruptcy and foreclosure. Rainy Day Budget makes creating, managing, and updating budgets simple. Use our intuitive user interface to easily add income sources, pre-tax and regular expenses, and savings funds. The payday...
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failures
- Stay with me here readers, I'm stringing two stories about McAfee together here, a little out of the ordinary, so I hope it makes sense. If you aren't interested in the tech details of which there are very little, please do read for a good laugh. Network World reported...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Researcher claims thousands of identities stolen during Social Engineering pentests
- Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading, reported on research conducted by Joshua Perrymon, hacking director for PacketFocus Security Solutions and CEO of RedFlag Security, who has been performing social engineering exploits for numerous clients in the past year and has apparently stolen thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-Law
- Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-LawIt's not Vista Stupid It's YouI hate when people try to blame problems on Vista that don't belong to it. If you're having problems with AOL IM working with Vista, then the problem is AOL. They have had over 2 years to get their...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- HSBC sites vulnerable to XSS flaws, could aid phishing attacks
- HSBC sites vulnerable to XSS flaws, could aid phishing attacksHow many users understand or care....Your article raises a number of good points. But the best advice for not getting phished is to bookmark a secure page on the bank's website and use ONLY that bookmark to access your account....
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- HSBC sites vulnerable to XSS flaws, could aid phishing attacks
- What would the perfect phishing attack from a social engineering perspective? The one that compared to using typosquatted domains impersonating the bank's web application directory structure is in fact using the bank's legitimate domain names as redirectors due to XSS flaws within. It's even more interesting to measure the average...
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- UK most popular online banking sites in January 2008
- Banking Service Audience, 000 Visits per user Total Internet: Total Audience 33,254 71.0 Royal Bank of Scotland RBS Group 2,906 5.9 NatWest Bank 2,021 5.9 Royal Bank of Scotland 952 5.5 Lloyds TSB 2,832 6.8 Halifax Bank of...
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- The lighter side of Bill Gates
- The lighter side of Bill GatesI don't understand this blog post...it is a bit rambling... So, there is an innocent photo of Bill Gates with some Hooters waitresses under the link "trouble with his wife", and the author wet himself for a rather juvenile stunt, when a pie was thrown...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- California to drivers: Drop the cell phone, dude
- Next week a California law will require the use of hands-free phones and ban cell phones entirely for drivers under 18--but there's a loophole that allows texting while driving. LOS ANGELES--Next week California will try to wrest cell phones from the hands of drivers, telling everyone from movie starlets...
- News items 2008-06-27
- ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group
- ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking groupWindows is to blameI hear that the Internet is basically run on Windows servers so it is hardly surprising that this happened. If ICANN would only switch to OS X I'm sure that no hacker would ever be able to break in.As...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you
- And trust me, they really do. Over the last year, the UK and US Governments have had an awful problem in keeping basic data protection rules in check, almost to the point where they may have been broadcasting over the radio minutes of the intelligence committee meetings. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Splash applications coming to iPhone
- I've just confirmed with the folks at Splash Data that they'll be announcing versions of SplashID, SplashMoney and SplashShopper for iPhone. SplashID is one of my favorite desktop applications and I use it several times a day to retrieve passwords, account numbers and all manor of other...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Lifehacker are gods: the ideal student solutions
- As you can imagine with universities breaking up for the summer, it's been a slow news week. I subscribe to Lifehacker on my list of favourites (as well as many others as you'd imagine) because it has some mindblowingly good tricks, tips and technology news. I would like to show...
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Introduction to dynamic documents
- Q&A Jake Sorofman, senior VP of marketing and business development for JustSystems, says ynamic documents can transform how organizations create, share and deliver information. Dynamic documents can transform how organizations create, share and deliver information. Jake Sorofman, senior VP of marketing and business development for...
- News items 2008-06-25
- First Symbian Foundation handsets due in 2010
- First Symbian Foundation handsets due in 2010Well if we can believe both dates....Android 4th Quarter 2008 and Symbian in 2010, well Android will have quite a head start to deal with.I wouldnt bank on that.Android is on a closed platform released fairly recently...I've been programming for Symbian in OPL and...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Mobile RIAs - getting more exciting thanks to Nokia and Symbian
- Big news today for those following mobile RIAs closely. Nokia is buying the remaining 52% of Symbian that it doesn't own and making the mobile platform open source. As Steve O'Hear said, the move is "bold to say the least". At a time when everyone is trying to make a...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Stanford University data breach leaks sensitive information of approximately 62,000 employees
- A data breach resulting from a stolen laptop has leaked sensitive information including Social Security Numbers of approximately 62,000 as reported by Stanford University former and current Standford University employees. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a site devoted to the collection of data breach information, reports this number as 72,000, and I'm...
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
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