This is a pretty interesting article that has a lot of great points in regards to how online criminals and crime has evolved over the years. Probably one of the biggest (and scariest) changes that has occurred over the years is the mindset. What used to primarily be for curiosity and personal challenges is now […]

This was a pretty interesting survey, even though the article was somewhat directed towards that lack of credit card fraud and identity theft in India.  The thing I found interesting is that in this one conducted survey, up to 83% of people in the United States were familiar with phishing scams.  In addition, 91% of […]

It seems like 2.0 just came out and we’re already hearing things about 3.0, which is great. While it is not expected to come out until around the end of the year, it’s great to hear about the new improvements they plan on incorporating. The idea of being able to identify and block […]

My guess is ‘no’. Since three vendors were accused of having weak and hackable e-voting machines, it would probably be in the best interest to just used the old-fashioned paper system. Granted these voting machines can be patches up before the California election in six months, but who says that there won’t be […]

This is a very interesting take on the effects of spyware. Usually, when people hear the word ’spyware’, they think of things like hackers, criminals, and theft. But there actually is a positive aspect to spyware (at least, the elements that can consist of spyware packages). Businesses have actually been using them for quite some […]

I thought this was appropriate since it always seems like there’s a news story discussing a stolen laptop with extremely sensitive information. Then again, even if your laptop doesn’t have sensitive information on it, you should still practice the tips provided in this article.
Laptop theft is a huge problem. It is common nowadays to […]

Antivirus solutions were developed with signatures in mind. Since all pieces of malware have been known to have a common identifier (or, signature), vendors knew this would be a wise way to identify and eliminate malware from people’s systems. Unfortunately, this mindset is slowly fading away. With the evolution of new dynamic […]

I stumbled into this and thought it was worth discussing. Ryan Naraine recently wrote an article on how to properly secure Firefox. While his recommendations can not provide 100% security (since that is nothing less of impossible), his does describe it in a way where anyone can understand. With his use of […]

Interesting concept: people register for an auction-like site and sell vulnerabilities they discover to software companies. If you are like me, you will have immediately thought that this was probably something developed by criminals, but it was in fact created by a Swiss security company. While the company says they will validate the […]

I thought this was pretty interesting. This website has taken a collection of various identity theft tactics, created images out of them, and posted them with descriptions to help educate people on how to spot fraudulent schemes. For just 9 images (one being just an intro image), they do a pretty darn good […]