Think you or your company has good security measures in place? Ever wonder why the exterminators are in the building. Do you escort contractors? The lengths that people will go to get your companies secrets may surprise you. [eWeek]
I came across an article on ZDNet website talking about Russian hackers. This subject has always interested me. I have always believed that with the weak economy in former eastern block countries that technical knowledge would be used for black…
Seems RSS has caught the eye of Spyware creators nothing is out there yet, but I am sure it will not be long. [Nick Bradbury]
The linked article if true is not a good sign in the personal privacy department. I had written TSA last year when they were thinking about building a list that would allow pre-screened passengers to have expedited passage through airport…
The term “hackers” can conjure images of teenager misfits, breaking into your credit card account in order to get into porn sites on the web. But these days when you talk about hackers your talking about those programmers that can make software…
The Washington Post has an interesting story about how the Secret Service is using 4,000 of their computers in a Distributed network attack. The attack is to break passwords on encryption keys. We all know that getting software to encrypt…
Since I have instant messaging accounts with AOL, MSN, ICQ, and Yahoo, I found it much easier to use a single multi-client program for my instant messaging. For my PC I use Trillian. On my Macs I use Fire. It didn’t…