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Facebook Friending Gets A Guy Some Jail Time
By Charles Jeter at 18 August, 2010, 4:21 pm
Believe it or not, this cybercrime has some twists reminding all of us to beware the estranged techie ex who decides to hack email or instant messaging accounts and then escalate to Facebook friending.
Enter Harry W Bruder. This handsome devil is in his mid fifties, proving that not every Facebook user is a … Read More.
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Loading ...How to Lie to Your Bank and Get Away With It
By Charles Jeter at 3 August, 2010, 3:18 pm
While we talk about the periodic leakages of personal information from Facebook and how that information is leveraged by cybercriminals, the community of Facebook users can change their ways. Let’s pair up victims with criminals based on what’s broadcast by the victim. Here are Facebook’s seven deadly sins matched up with the most likely categories … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Securing Our eCity Listed as Winner of National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge
By Charles Jeter at 15 July, 2010, 1:30 pm
For the Best Local/Community Plan, Securing Our eCity San Diego and MyMainePrivacy were both selected as winners. Both proposals offered innovated strategies for grassroots collaborative approaches with state and local government, public and private sector, and the academic community through their online classroom style trainings. The National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge, which Secretary Napolitano announced in… Read more.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Anti-Skimming Tips at Debit-only Pumps
By Charles Jeter at 23 June, 2010, 2:20 pm
Today as I filled up, I noticed that they changed my BP / Arco pump kiosk’s payment instructions, probably as a result of the Hotea Arco skimming case a few years back. With the recent commentary on skimming David Harley provided, I thought a picture of anti-skimming advice might speak a thousand words – or… Read more.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Stock Manipulation Botnets Gain Ground
By Charles Jeter at 22 June, 2010, 1:00 pm
The attacks from cybercriminals are now occurring in the online stock and equity trading world. Instead of simply emptying out compromised brokerage accounts, cybercriminals apparently are refining their attacks and striking at broader and more lofty goals: the trust mechanisms of business equity valuations with publicly traded stocks and equities. George Hulme, InformationWeek contributing writer [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Keylogging taken seriously: Security upgrades in the new Hotmail
By Charles Jeter at 17 June, 2010, 4:54 pm
Microsoft Hotmail has a new feature: Out of Band Authentication via cell phone SMS Text. They call it ‘single-use codes’: Single-use codes This new security feature is designed to further protect you when you sign in from a public computer, such as those found in internet cafés, airports, and coffee shops. When you request a [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Java: Worse than Adobe and Microsoft for vulnerabilities?
By Charles Jeter at 16 June, 2010, 5:17 am
Brian Krebs thinks so:
Java is now among the most frequently-attacked programs, and appears to be fast replacing Adobe as the target of choice for automated exploit tools used by criminals.
Of the systems which I personally administrate as the ‘Chief Family Technology Officer’, the Java updates constantly annoy and confuse my mom who uses Vista… [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Will Free Wi-Fi at Starbucks and McDonalds Spread Malware?
By Charles Jeter at 14 June, 2010, 3:23 pm
Reports that Starbucks (NASD: SBUX) will be offering free 802.11 wireless access at all US locations starting July 1st raised some speculative eyebrows with this Threat Blogger wondering about whether proliferation of open access points on a brand-name and nationwide basis will spread malware or increase the theft of identity rich account login information often [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Cross-platform Security Advisory for Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat
By Charles Jeter at 9 June, 2010, 12:55 pm
Ouch. This affects virtually everyone including Mac, Linux, and Windows users. More can be found here at the PSIRT site. And yes, there is malware already associated already with it.
A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Please Rob Me: Blippy
By Charles Jeter at 28 May, 2010, 3:08 am
Blippy recently had a small data breach which merely underscored the risks of a growing segment of social networks which showcases your toys…
How a burglar or other thief sees Blippy:
Charles Jeter, Securing Our eCity Contributing Writer
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