Well, here is yet another case of a stolen laptop that contains personal information on over 2000 taxpayers. That’s not even the worst part either; there was more than one case. In fact, there were 490 computers stolen in 387 incidents. What’s even worse is that the laptops didn’t have robust passwords or strong encryption […]

Keeping confidential information confidential… that’s what we can learn from this. Bruce Gabbard, who was supposedly an employee of Wal-Mart, was constantly eavesdropping on phone calls and emails. From this article, it sounds like the FBI is still investigating this, since Bruce said his purpose of eavesdropping was to help protect Wal-Mart from […]

There are always new tools coming out in the security realm, so this really isn’t anything new. The tool is called Ferret and it has the capability of capturing data being passed from 25 different protocols. Yeah, this may sound like geek-speak to some, but if people with malicious intent get a hold […]

It appears that with the high demand of Microsoft’s most secure OS, security vendors are not able to keep up with the pace. Now, because Vista is Microsoft’s most secure OS, you would think that the demand would not be as heavy for Security Vendor support versus past years with previous OS’s, but it […]

Simply put, this article states they are (1) malware, (2) phishing and (3) IE. While I am not surprised one bit about the first two, I am a little surprised about the third. Even though IE was considered one of the biggest threats last year as well, I would have expected the change […]

It looks like it comes down to three options; 1.) warn the cyber criminals 2.) perform a cyber counter-attack or 3.) just bomb the source. I find this to be quite interesting that cyber warfare is starting to be discussed. It’s scary, obviously, but I am kind of surprised that we didn’t hear […]