Category: Cybersecurity


  • gg… California woman sues CD company over user-tracking technology. About time… maybe if this was a bigger record, then it could be made into a class-action lawsuit?

  • Incest Scam

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    Found in a spam message… MARRY your BROTHER, SISTER, or your BEST FRIEND!! Took me a sec to realize this was Subject: Become-a-Minister-Now

  • Great day for computer security stories… a virus pretending to be a Microsoft patch Kazaa and Morpheus programs can reveal username and hostname more hacking into Hotmail Apache with SQL flaws smugglers caught transporting encryption devices to China (sooooo illegal). – – – – – Interesting… wonder if our students are targetted for identity theft? –…

  • SirCam

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    Only 800+ emails to download this morning. Lots of SirCam attachments to disinfect and deduce the owner’s real identity. Another 200+ instances of computers looking at mine without permission over the weekend (reinstalled ZoneAlarm since Tiny Firewall let everything through unless I told it not to allow it). – – – – – Funny… Someone sends me…

  • 2 possibilities: CP 2.2.1 is more stable than 2.1.1 or Joe has been hiding the crashes. Hopefully the former. 2.1.1 rarely made it over 2 weeks without at least 1 crash. 2.2.1 has gone at least 2 weeks so far. There is another “helpful” virus on the scene…TROJ_ALLGRO.A. This one sends and attachment tells you it…

  • Our new leather chairs are almost here. Okay, so we are geeky. They have more options and adjustments than a calculator. Can you tell I am excited?!?! Whipped up another web page on the President Bailey’s retirement. This one is about how he is not going anywhere until the presidential search concludes. This is just disturbing… If…

  • Graduate Catalog is up. Now for Undergraduate Catalog update, Evening Program updates, and some PHP research. – – – – – Auuuggghghhhh!!! Ran across a guestbook where all they talked about was the author’s period?!?? – – – – – Damn… thought this virus was pretty much stamped out!?! Just got one. Today, Snowhite was turning 18.…

  • Here is an extortion letter from a hacker to a company. So he figures out how to break into the system, sends a letter to the company that the vulnerabilities of the company are known to the hacker community, and wants $$$ to help fix the vulnerabilities. Sick

  • What kind of password do you use? Your own name? A family member’s name? Your favorite sports star or actor? Tsk, tsk, tsk. Here is a SecurityWatch article on a poll in the U.K. which asked people about what password they use on their PC or laptop. – – – – – Such low amounts of…