Weekend Reading
Don't Click On These B00bies
You have to love a clever criminal.
1) Create deceptive eBay listing.
2) Use a picture of b00bies as the item picture.
3) Embed a bit of malware.
4) Steal eBay credentials.
5) Profit?
Here's the scenario straight from eBay [note: the listing has now been removed]:
Take a look HERE.
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Data less safe today than two years ago
Today's electronic world is a risky place for your personal data -- and it's not getting any safer. More than 158 million data records of U.S. residents have been exposed as a result of security breaches since January 2005, according to The Privacy Rights Clearing House, a nonprofit consumer rights organization.
As fast as banks, merchants and consumers add new layers of security to their storage systems and network, say security analysts, new technologies -- or simply careless users -- create new security holes that aggressive and sophisticated identity thieves eagerly exploit.
Read the article HERE.
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Troubled times for home networks
There are the technologies that prove how useless they are when you actually try them. Take for instance, home networking. Increasing numbers of us have amassed large collections of digital images, music, movies and TV shows. The ability to do more with it, to share it around and show it off, has an obvious appeal. But the available technology is not living up to its potential.
Read the article HERE.
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America's Hackable Backbone
The first time Scott Lunsford offered to hack into a nuclear power station, he was told it would be impossible. There was no way, the plant's owners claimed, that their critical components could be accessed from the Internet.
Take a look HERE.
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Terror goes digital. With Canadian help
The GlobeAndMail reports a somewhat misguided story about internet domain registrars like Register and Tucows, allowing registrar's to pay an additional fee to keep their registration records anonymous. In this age of decreasing privacy and increasing fraud, it's just a good idea considering any 13 year old can WHOIS an open DNS record.
In the article, the argument is being made that this helps terrorists stay anonymous too. Now let's be a little rational here. The last time we checked you are "innocent until proven guilty", at least in most countries. People who use loopholes and weaknesses in law to stay hidden will always do so. People with criminal intent cannot be controlled by anything other than due diligence and hard work. It will always be this way. This is a fools argument, leveraging people's fear of the terrorist "boogeyman", to make an argument with no merit.
The GlobeAndMail reports... HERE.
You have to love a clever criminal.
1) Create deceptive eBay listing.
2) Use a picture of b00bies as the item picture.
3) Embed a bit of malware.
4) Steal eBay credentials.
5) Profit?
Here's the scenario straight from eBay [note: the listing has now been removed]:
Take a look HERE.
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Data less safe today than two years ago
Today's electronic world is a risky place for your personal data -- and it's not getting any safer. More than 158 million data records of U.S. residents have been exposed as a result of security breaches since January 2005, according to The Privacy Rights Clearing House, a nonprofit consumer rights organization.
As fast as banks, merchants and consumers add new layers of security to their storage systems and network, say security analysts, new technologies -- or simply careless users -- create new security holes that aggressive and sophisticated identity thieves eagerly exploit.
Read the article HERE.
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Troubled times for home networks
There are the technologies that prove how useless they are when you actually try them. Take for instance, home networking. Increasing numbers of us have amassed large collections of digital images, music, movies and TV shows. The ability to do more with it, to share it around and show it off, has an obvious appeal. But the available technology is not living up to its potential.
Read the article HERE.
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America's Hackable Backbone
The first time Scott Lunsford offered to hack into a nuclear power station, he was told it would be impossible. There was no way, the plant's owners claimed, that their critical components could be accessed from the Internet.
Take a look HERE.
==================================================================
Terror goes digital. With Canadian help
The GlobeAndMail reports a somewhat misguided story about internet domain registrars like Register and Tucows, allowing registrar's to pay an additional fee to keep their registration records anonymous. In this age of decreasing privacy and increasing fraud, it's just a good idea considering any 13 year old can WHOIS an open DNS record.
In the article, the argument is being made that this helps terrorists stay anonymous too. Now let's be a little rational here. The last time we checked you are "innocent until proven guilty", at least in most countries. People who use loopholes and weaknesses in law to stay hidden will always do so. People with criminal intent cannot be controlled by anything other than due diligence and hard work. It will always be this way. This is a fools argument, leveraging people's fear of the terrorist "boogeyman", to make an argument with no merit.
The GlobeAndMail reports... HERE.
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