Flametoad

It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out that if you work for a defense contractor you probably shouldn’t put peer-to-peer software on your work computer. Something like this could happen. Now consider… what do you have on your personal hard drives that shouldn’t be shared? Bank records from Quicken or MS Money? Passwords? Information [...]

I’ve written once or twice about my growing awareness of credit card security and the various ways it can break down. One such method is called “skimming”, which involves copying the magnetic stripe data from the back of your card with the intention of creating a clone of your card for later use. If a cashier [...]

Usually I consider myself somewhat well informed, but somehow several recent waves of massive, automated attacks on web servers flew under my radar. This attack, which affected hundreds of thousands of web pages and thousands of servers, adds malicious code to web pages. The code is “injected” into a “SQL” server database, thus the title of my post. The code [...]

Never let it be said that the digitari don’t have their own sacred cows. In teh interweb, some topics are simply common knowledge. No need to roll for it; everyone knows it’s true. For instance: Mac versus PC, or Firefox versus IE. Late last year a security strategy director for Microsoft named Jeff Jones published [...]

  I believe I’ve written in the past about a how a load of Seagate hard drives were found to contain trojans straight from the factory in China. Here’s even more chilling news. LCD photo frames from China have also been found to contain trojans. According to the San Franciso Chronicle: "An insidious computer virus [...]