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2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced

Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on.  From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...

Tags: Attack, Flaw, Lifelock, Nathan McFeters, Nominee, Security, Vulnerability, XSS, XSS Flaw

Blog posts 2008-07-21

More Snake Oil: LifeLock spokesperson's stolen id leads to law suits

More Snake Oil: LifeLock spokesperson's stolen id leads to law suitsThanks for the story.I was interested in this kind of service. I already have an opt out with all the credit unions, but following the links, I found out that as of Jan 1, 2008, I can, in Texas,...

Tags: LifeLock, Snake Oil, law suit

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

More Snake Oil: LifeLock spokesperson's stolen ID leads to lawsuits

Can you remember being a kid, when your parents first told you what your SSN was?  I remember mine telling me to never give it to anyone.  Of course, then as soon as I got my first job as a caddy at the local golf course I had to give...

Tags: Lawsuit, Advertisement, LifeLock, Identity Theft, Government, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Additional Resources

Bogus LinkedIn profiles serving malware

Bogus LinkedIn profiles serving malwareI forgot about that guy...Yes, pay a monthly fee to a guy for something that if people used common sense would most likely not happen to begin with.Most of the cases of this are from people spewing out their private data to the public arena. However,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Social Security, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Operational accounting, life history, WOT, LinkedIn, malware

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Feel like taunting an identity thief? Don't.

Feel like taunting an identity thief? Don't.SurprisingI am a little surprised they would even bother to do this. But not very surprised.I have never been tempted to 'taunt' them in the first place. What I have been tempted to do is send them false information, preferably from an automated source,...

Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Cyberthreats, Middleware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, new credit, ActiveX, virus

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

McAfee SiteAdvisor blocks SANS

Showing you just how much they understand about security, McAfee blocked the SANS website, sans.org, as well as giac.org and sans.edu, with their SiteAdvisor application, listing it as a "bad" site. Interestingly enough, SANS sites are some of the best sites to go to for security related...

Tags: McAfee Inc., McAfee SiteAdvisor, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-30

News to know: Windows 7; Google's Safe browsing; Perlow's spine

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: How much do you need to know about Windows 7 today? Dancho Danchev: Google introducing Safe Browsing diagnostic to help owners of compromised sites Nate McFeters: More Snake Oil: LifeLock spokesperson's stolen id leads to law suits Jason...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Twitter, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Emerging Technologies, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Credit issuer says data lost for 650,000 customers

Credit issuer says data lost for 650,000 customersNice going...I should try telling these various credit card company morons that I "lost" their bills and then send them an offer to protect their good names. This idiotic country has become absolutely beholden to computer systems that barely work and employees that...

Tags: Social Security, Identity theft, Operational accounting, Credit Bureaus, issuer

Discussion threads 2008-01-19

Fred Thompson aims to be blogger-in-chief

Fred Thompson aims to be blogger-in-chiefFred Thompson shills for sketchy businessmanFredHeads should take a look at this attack on Fred Thompson's radio endorsement of this company LifeLock:http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-06-21/news/slapstick-scammers/Certainly raises interesting questions about Thompson's judgement.

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Fred Thompson

Discussion threads 2007-06-24

News to know: Life without Google; Securing Safari; Dell

Notable headlines:Life without Google: Quintura a nice alternative. Gallery right.Techmeme: The great age debate: Can over 30-somethings innovate?AP: GE, Pearson Discussing Dow Jones Bid.Marc Orchant: Dell selling Nokia phones - bad news for carriers. Matthew Miller: Dell coupons may help you buy a new Nokia S60 device.Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-06-18

ID theft allegations haunt founder of ID theft fraud protection service

ID theft allegations haunt founder of ID theft fraud protection serviceID Theft allegations hauntThis is indeed a sad story. It is very unfortunate that consumers would entrust their information to a third party, only to have to question themselves whether or not they have placed their trust in the right...

Tags: fraud protection, identity theft

Discussion threads 2007-06-06

ID theft allegations haunt founder of ID theft fraud protection service

This morning on the Howard Stern radio show, 'Baba Booey' come into the studio to help with a live commercial for Lifelock, an identity theft anti-fraud service that makes an eye-opening guarantee to its customers.After hearing the ad, I scribbled a note to check it out for a possible story...

Tags: Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Privacy, Piracy, Patch Watch, Passwords, Hackers, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets

Blog posts 2007-06-05

Study: Identity theft keeps climbing

Study: Identity theft keeps climbingIt would help if our lawmakers would do something meaningful...There is no reason in the world that I should not be able to lock down my credit records whenever I feel like it. A lock and unlock should be as simple as a phone call...

Tags: credit bureau, identity theft, Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-06