Personal Security
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Friday, January 9th, 2009In early December, CheckFree Corp. experienced a situation where their domain registration account was compromised and subsequently, DNS was hijacked. CheckFree offers a bill payment service through several banks, including Bank of America, many who use the service were diverted to a server located in the Ukraine and unwittingly gave up their usernames and passwords […]
Is Facebook Breaking Privacy Laws?
Monday, June 2nd, 2008I just logged off the popular and well known “Social Networking” site, Facebook after playing some Scrabulous moves with some of my friends. There is no doubt that Facebook can be a great tool for keeping in touch with friends and acquaintances and some of the third party applications such as Scrabulous are popular […]
Ontario Governments At It Again
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Seems that just about everywhere you look, governments are trying to protect us from ourselves. As reported in The London Fog, the Ontario government is now considering following other jurisdictions in banning cell phone usage in cars. But not just cell phones - the Ontario Government is also considering banning smoking in cars where children […]
Perfecting Your Password Policy
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008“I need to remember my password, so I keep it simple and easy,” I’ve heard many folk say. “I’ve been told to never write it down, so it has to be memorable.”
Just about anyone who uses a computer these days has had to create a password for something at some point. Whether it’s a […]
Slip, Slipping Away
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 “The true criminals will go and use random Wi-Fi nodes where you can get anonymous access,” he said. “You haven’t done anything but increase surveillance of law-abiding citizens.”
~ Jim Harper, Cato Institute, as reported by CNET
What price for loss of freedom and expectation of privacy are […]
Banks Not Using Secure Log-In Pages
Sunday, March 16th, 2008You’d think with the vast numbers of phishing attempts, financial institutions would be doing everything they can do to help with preventative measures. But an unofficial survey shows some banks are lagging way behind.
Johannes Ullrich, SANS “Handler Of The Day” on April 19, 2006, checked out some financial institutions’ log in pages. In what […]