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Want your privacy back? Try disappearing
September 2, 2010 | Comment on this post
Danger and money. Those are the two reasons people choose to disappear, says professional skip-tracer Frank M. Ahearn. Think witness protection program. Or faking your death as part of a life insurance scam.
Ahearn helps find people for a living. He says he helps them vanish, too. He says he helped identify Monica Lewinsky as the intern dallying with President Bill Clinton. And he says he helped locate — and hide …more
A call for tech suppliers to embrace privacy principles
September 1, 2010 | Comment on this post
Fran Maier, president of TRUSTe, a San Francisco-based firm that certifies Web sites using privacy best-practices, recently lost her digital camera on a trip to Germany. In this LastWatchdog guest post, Maier describes how the use of her camera by the strangers who ended up with it underscores new privacy risks facing us all.
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Zscaler researcher finds scanning flaw in HP all-in-one printers
September 1, 2010 | Comment on this post
A cybersecurity researcher has discovered an easy way for a hacker to swipe copies of documents scanned by Hewlett-Packard all-in-one printers widely used in workplace settings.
Michael Sutton, Vice President of Security Research at Zscaler Labs, outlines in this blog post how a feature, called WebScan, that’s enabled by default on countless HP all-in-one printers, can be activated remotely to transmit copies of a scanned document over the …more
Kindsight perfecting Intrustion Detection System for home PC users
August 27, 2010 | Comment on this post
Security start-up Kindsight is in the late stages of bringing to market a breakthrough tool that could, if it catches on, establish a new paradigm for protecting consumers’ PCs.
Consider that iTune hijackers and online banking cyberrobbers both rely on a ready supply of illicitly-obtained usernames and passwords to log into your various Internet accounts.
They typically obtain your account credentials from phishers, who direct …more
Apple criticized for minimizing iTunes hijacking
August 25, 2010 | Comment on this post
Apple is coming under fire for sticking with a consumer online transactions system that is easily hijacked.
At issue is iTunes, the payment hub for Apple’s online sales of music, video and apps for iPods, iPhones and iPads. Turns out that hijacking an iTunes account is very straight forward. For at least the past year, iTunes hijackers have been buying stolen usernames and passwords from phishers and …more
What companies should know about complying with data security rules
August 24, 2010 | Comment on this post
The need to comply with industry and federal regulations for keeping data secure drives a good part of what many big organizations spend on security. In this LastWatchdog guest blog post,Tim Harvey, CEO of Perimeter E-Securitym, outlines the basic considerations. Perimeter supplies compliance, security and messaging services.
By Tim Harvey
A need for renewed focus on risk …more
Spanair crash shows deadly result of using tainted USB stick
August 22, 2010 | 2 Comments
A virus-carrying USB thumb drive has been implicated in the 2008 crash of a Spanish jetliner, the deadliest air disaster in Spanish history.
Packed with vacationers, Spanair Flight JK5022 smashed into the ground shortly after takeoff from Madrid’s Barajas international airport, bound for the Canary Islands. The Aug. 20, 2008 tragedy killed 154 of 172 souls on board the Boeing MD-80 jetliner.
El Pais cites a 12,000-page …more