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While I found it pretty amusing as to where this article was found, it does bring up something pretty scary; hacking into 911.  In this incident, a kid was able to place a call requesting a ‘fully armed response’ at a house where the family was sleeping.  What’s worse is the husband of the targeted […]

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Recently, a couple of doctorates from Carnegie Melon conducted a study over a 7-month period.  In that period, 2.4 Gb of chat information was logged and an estimated $37 million worth of fraudulent credit card transactions were recorded.  While it seemed this study primarily focused on IRC communications, they brought up an ironically amusing way […]

It looks like some hackers in China are re-routing traffic from Google to Baidu, which is another search engine.  While Baidu has been around for quite some time and does not *currently* host any threats, its scary to know that people are able to take on the Internet giant Google and redirect all of their […]

With VoIP targeted attacks on the rise, its not surprise that Skype is an appealing target.  That being said, Skype recently warned its users of a new password-stealing Trojan making its way around.  What it does is launch a ficticious Skype interface and asks for your username and password.  Unsuspecting users will enter their information […]

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I thought this was a pretty interesting article to share, even though it is a Part 2 of a two part series.  This article really does a good job in breaking down how encrypted communication works from the aspect of public key infrastructure (PKI).  It actually reminded me of an encryption book I read a […]