Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Although the two most-recent builds of Firefox 2.0, labeled 2.0.0.19 and 2.0.0.20, have omitted the defense, earlier editions of the browser were still able to query Google for a list of sites suspected of hosting identity theft scams. But Google is now shutting down the blacklist, said Mike Beltzner , ...
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008 This is a great list of various things you can do to protect your data. Here's a quick summary:10. Wipe that iPhone (or BlackBerry) before trading in.
9. Use virtual credit cards for iffy online buys.
8. Hide data inside files with steganography.
7. Plan for the worst.
6. Get smarter on security questions.
5. ...
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008 A Trojan horse program now available to a growing number of fraudsters can add data entry fields to legitimate online banking sites and entice consumers to give up sensitive information such as bank card numbers and PINs (personal identification numbers).The Limbo malware integrates itself into a Web browser using a ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008 I just heard on the Security Now podcast a listener mention that his Wells Fargo password was not case-sensitive. I'm not a Wells Fargo user but several users who are that I asked this morning actually confirmed this. You will be logged in no matter what case you enter into ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Remember the UPS spam runs that were popular last month (see previous blog posts here and here)? Spammers have chosen a different courier this time, but the message was basically the same.Posing as FedEx notifications, these email messages have the same format as their earlier UPS counterparts: tracking number (perhaps ...
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