Symantec tool calculates your data’s value to thieves

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

It's no secret that criminals are stealing credit card and bank account data and selling it underground. But most people would find it shocking to learn just how little their sensitive personal information costs. Symantec on Thursday is launching its Norton Online Risk Calculator, a tool that people can use to ...

Microsoft Outlook users targeted in phishing attempt

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Trend Micro is warning about a phishing attempt that targets users of Microsoft Outlook. The phishing e-mail arrives in Outlook e-mail inboxes and looks like it comes from Microsoft. It prompts recipients to reconfigure their Outlook by clicking on a link that leads to a Web site that asks for account ...

Comcast passwords leaked onto the Web

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

A list of thousands of user names and passwords for Comcast customers was removed from document sharing Web site Scribd on Monday, two months after it was posted there. Scribd removed the list of more than 8,000 passwords and user names after being contacted by Brad Stone at The New York ...

Comments Are Now Open

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

I just turned off the option that required users to register an account before they could comment on this site.  I originally turned this on when I first moved to Wordpress in hopes of avoiding all the comment SPAM.  But there are now some great SPAM prevention options that are ...

phpBB Downtime and Server Compromise

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

As you may already be aware from the message on phpBB.com or the topic in the #phpBB channel on Freenode, we have recently been attacked via a vulnerability in an outdated PHPList installation. The initial attack was performed well before a new version of the software was released or a ...