Security

Remember the Kryptonite bic pen fiasco last year

I remember the blogsphere was all over the issue and the intense scrutiny and commentary for the lack of public response of Kryptonite to the online community. The companies perspective is interesting and also paints a picture to me at…

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Todd Cochrane
Security

New E-Mail Virus Trick

Today a buddy of mine sent me an copy of a e-mail that really looked like it came from me. Here is how convincing it was. It used my regular e-mail “from name”, and had some intelligent text in the…

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Todd Cochrane
Security

Kicking up Security without breaking the bank?

I have gotten to the point here in my business operation that I want to make sure that I am not the next company reporting that my databases have been hacked and all of my customers and associates information has…

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Todd Cochrane
Privacy, Security

SpreadFirefox site hacked!

It seems the server that the SpreadFirefox website was hosted on was hacked earlier last week and was taken off line to determine total damages. Apparently the box was turned into a Spam zombie, but their is some concern that…

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Todd Cochrane
Privacy, Security

Want to know who your neghibors are?

This is pretty amazing stuff. A little to amazing if you ask me and pretty darn accurate. I did a little search on the road I grew up on and the names, address and telephone numbers that came up were…

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Todd Cochrane
Security

Trackback Spammers targeting Valid Domains!

I have seen a rash of trackback spams that have the regular nasty messages in them but they have put regular valid domains in the trackback and comment spam. Here are the three that I see showing up today. google.com,…

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Todd Cochrane