Reports of identity theft being down again honestly arouses a little suspicion from me.  First off, this article talks about the idea that the sample size was only 5,000 people which I honestly believe not to be enough to conduct an identity theft study on.  Second, I would be interested to see what identity theft […]

Even though this article was published on Valentines Day, you can’t help but to think that thieves are still getting victims to fall for this tactic.  Yeah, you guessed it… it’s the ol’ infected ecard trick.  Heck I’ll be honest, I received a few of them myself.  Fortunately, they went to a couple of my […]

Sci-Tech Today - Best Buy has confirmed that some units of its Insignia 10.4-inch Digital Picture Frame, purchased over the holidays, had a computer virus, possibly a Trojan. Symantec Reports Real Drive-by Pharming Attack According to Symantec, the first drive-by
Symantec Reports Real Drive-by Pharming AttackEnterprise Security Today - Symantec found an e-mail […]

Sophos recently conducted a study with computer users wondering what they think hackers are going to target this year.  The result… 93% believe Macs are going to be prime targets this year.  Whether it’s Macs Marketing Department to blame for this (saying that Macs are more secure than Windows) or hackers just wanting new targets, […]

Here’s an interesting article: it talks about this new sophisticated Trojan that hides itself by propagating to digital storage devices, including digital frames.  While the Trojan’s intentions are to steal passwords, it really made me think about the idea of Trojans in digital frames.  You know that sooner or later there are going to be […]

Computerworld - file converter software that is part of Office 2003 and can be used to run unauthorized software on a victim’s computer. The flaw also affects Works 8 and Works Suite 2005. To fall prey to the attack, a victim would first have to open a malicious
Portable device […]

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Computerworld - This social engineering technique has been seen before,” said Trend Micro researcher Jake Soriano on the TrendLabs Malware blog . “In October, a Trojan rode on the newsworthiness of the monk-led protests in Myanmar arriving as an attachment to
The Latest Headlines Cleveland Leader - Thousands of websites belonging […]

ZDNet Australia - Botnet operators have become public enemy number-one as consumers, businesses and governments fall foul to identity theft, DDoS attacks and spam. Yet no one appears to be able to stop the spread of bots — except maybe the media. Serving up
ID theft ranking questionedDelaware Online - Identity fraud nationwide […]

Talk about some good news… the idea of vulnerabilities being down in 2007 is a nice testament that businesses and software companies are taking more time to debug and secure their applications.  While that may be the case, I think a huge part of the decrease in vulnerabilities has to do with Vista.  Granted, it […]