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News October 6, 2009

New Trojan Horse Targets Online Banking, Does More Than Steal Login Information

This is one of those bits of news that bears repeating, particularly if you use online banking. CNET is reporting about a new type of Trojan horse, known as URLZone, that is designed not to steal your login information for online banking sites, but rather to actually steal your money while you’re on the bank’s [...]

Car Cam Voyager with LCD, because ‘stuff’ happens

New York-based BrickHouse Security is not only dedicated to assisting the public and government with their security, safety, protection, covert surveillance and counter-surveillance needs, but they also want to offer peace of mind for our mobile environments as well.

Brickhouse Security offers cellular-enabled Global Watchman for even the most remote areas

Picture this: You live two and a half miles from your front gate, and you want to know who is entering or leaving your property; or you own a half million dollar mobile home that is kept at a storage facility, and you want to check in on it daily without actually driving to the [...]

Facebook Fan Check Application Virus Scare is a Hoax, but…

I recently checked out the Facebook Fan Check Application on Facebook. It does some sort of calculation on your friend list and arranges your top 15 friends in a order and it looks like to me the order is in the amount of Facebook activity that you and your friends have. For example, my brother [...]

Skype may be vulnerable to Trojan.Peskspy that records your calls

There’s a new Trojan horse computer virus that may affect Skype users. Although there aren’t any widespread cases of this Trojan actually impacting Skype users. According to Symantec Security Response: Trojan.Peskspy listens in the data traveling between the Skype process and the audio device, it gathers the audio independently of any application-specific protocols or encryption [...]

Flying the Laptop-Friendly Skies

For a while now, flying hasn’t been that much fun. Airlines cutting costs (say “goodbye” to complimentary peanuts) and security checkpoints adding on time make personal airline travel feel like an ordeal, and business travel feel even more like a necessary “evil”. But for the business travelers amongst you, there’s one small piece of good [...]

Win7’s UAC Creates Security Hole?

There’s been a lot of speculation about whether the User Account Control widget in Windows 7 creates a security hole or not. IDG News Service reported on 31-Jan-09 that it did. The UAC in Vista is an all or nothing thing, and quite honestly, it “brings you to a sad, sad realization. (Confirm or Deny)” [...]

Review: Norton Internet Security 2009

I have been around computers, almost from the start. My first computer was the wildly successful Apple II+ (does anyone else remember the Bank Street Writer,) which was my main computer for close to ten years (including all of high school.) In the time since those early days, one thing has always been apparent: no [...]

Software Development 101: Thou Shalt Test Thy Software

I’ve been wondering lately if Microsoft needs a lesson in Software Development 101… Over the last few weeks, I’ve been watching the fiasco that is Windows XP SP3 play out. With so many problem reports hitting Microsoft, their Vendor-Partners, and eventually, the news, you would think that a little preventative medicine would have been applied [...]

Protection from Unwanted RFID Readers

I like the idea of RFID technology – being able to quickly pass an embedded item near a reader for immediate access or payment, but there are certain uses that make me nervous – like having an RFID embedded in my passport or other ID that contains most if not all of my personal documentation. [...]

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