There is a new way to secure your blog! This is quite possibly the most excited I have ever been about a security authentication method. The new method requires the user to login to wordpress, the authentication service then calls the users provided phone number. When the user answers the phonecall from PhoneFactor, he is [...]
Be on the lookout for this new Phishing attack! The person emailing you purports to be an employee of the united parcel service (UPS), of course- these emails have nothing at all to do with UPS. The email claims that your package was not able to be delivered, and includes a fake invoice that is [...]
From The Register An NZ teenager who became notorious for masterminding the creation of one of the largest cybercrime networks has escaped conviction, despite admitting computer hacking and fraud offences. Owen Thor Walker (AKA AKILL), 18 and from Whitianga, pleaded guilty to six cybercime offences in late March, but Justice Judith Potter dismissed the charges [...]
Ladies and Gentleman, please accept my sincerest apologies on the lack of stories over the weekend. I made a decision to cover the I-Phone pre-launch buildup, and stayed up from 8 am Thursday until 4 pm on Friday. I was anticipating on covering release numbers, people in lines, issues concerning people in line, etc. However, [...]
This has little nasty trojan has the right engineering to completely control every household in the country. With the mass spreading of p2p software such as limewire and utorrent, and so many others. What the virus, named “Trojan.ASF.Hijacker.gen””, does is- it infects 1 media file that is either Mp3, WMA, Mp2 or other media file [...]
So far, 18 hours into the release of the Iphone 2.0, 3 countries sole retailers of Iphones have been delayed because of "Network Issues". I find this odd because these are, supposedly- the people who will maintain our contract service. If they have this many issues with their intranets, how would they be able to [...]
Oh my god- This is bad. Not normal bad, Really bad. According to China,UK, US and others of the G8, All members of the G8 are now required to put in place laws that allow customs officials to access your portable media devices, laptop, storage devices, and phones. Basically anything electronic that you have is [...]
This is a truly amazing development in the future potential of the internet, researchers in Australia have developed a way of speeding up internet communication by upwards of 60 percent! This much bandwidth would allow absolutely seamless transference between end-users and content providers. It will (hopefully) revolutionize the way content providers think about their websites, [...]
Alright, First and foremost before going ANY further, There are no American forces in the sovereign nation of Iran! The storm bot, which has ravaged the world for so long, has switched tactics yet again. You can read the entire story below, but in a nutshell, storm is sending around fake news reports that the [...]
While I applaud the security implications of this decision by the chinese, I would point out that they are still using RFID chips in their most valuable tickets. These RFID chips have proven easy to manipulate, clone and then mass produce defrauded versions of the same ticket. Not only that, but an attacker would have [...]