New service tracks missing laptops for free

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Lose your laptop these days and you lose part of your life: You say good-bye to photos, music and personal documents that cannot be replaced, and if it's a work computer, you may be the source of a very public data breach. But now, researchers at the University of Washington and ...

Remembering Longer Passwords Easily

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

One of the members of the Master Mind Security Panel during the ITEC show in Charlotte, Dan Colby, made a great point. Basically, he said "quit using passwords."Colby is president and CEO of Pinstripe, an application development and consulting company in Charlotte. They provide all the IT services for many ...

Gmail now blocking fake eBay, PayPal e-mails

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Google on Tuesday said it is now using an e-mail authentication technology to keep phishers from luring Gmail users to fake eBay and PayPal Web pages in order to steal usernames and passwords.Source:http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9985605-7.html?hhTest∂=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog

Trojan lurks, waiting to steal admin passwords

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Writers of a password-stealing Trojan horse program have found that a little patience can lead to a lot of infections.They have managed to infect hundreds of thousands of computers, including more than 14,000 within one unnamed global hotel chain, by waiting for system administrators to log onto infected PCs and ...

Blizzard’s Two-Factor Authentication

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Blizzard's announcement of two-factor authentication for World of Warcraft is more significant than people realize. Passwords are obsolete. They are broken. We all recognize this, yet we aren't quite ready to give up on passwords because we haven't an easy alternative. World of Warcraft (WoW) is a good test case. It is ...