Join TV geek Adam Savage, and a cast of EFF legends and luminaries at EFF’s 20th birthday party! Our birthday fundraiser on February 10th will celebrate two decades of digital freedom-fighting in San Francisco’s world-famous DNA Lounge. Adam will present a unique look back and forward to the founding and the future of digital rights. [...]
My credit union has a Facebook page. Wants me to be a fan, because it’s good policy to tell everyone on the internet where you bank (especially if you do a lot of quizzes that have personal info on them). Feh. What are they thinking?
Researchers Take Over Dangerous Botnet Dark Reading (05/04/09) Higgins, Kelly Jackson University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) researchers temporarily commandeered an infamous botnet known for stealing financial data and found that the threat it represents is even greater than had been originally assumed. The Torpig/Sinowal/Anserin mini-botnet targets organizations and users to steal bank account information or [...]
Mob of Britons blocks Google-cam Posted: 03 Apr 2009 02:33 PM PDT The thing that amazes me about my homeland isn’t its willingness to live under state surveillance, but the way we freak out whenever anyone else uses cameras in public. “I was determined to make a stand,” said one local, who helped block a [...]
Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries New York Times (03/29/09) Markoff, John Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Munk Center for International Studies say a massive electronic spying operation has successfully stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world. The researchers say the system was controlled from computers almost [...]
Fears of a Conficker meltdown greatly exaggerated With 60 Minutes airing a report on Sunday, some people are panicking, but researchers don’t expect anything dramatic By Robert McMillan , IDG News Service , 03/27/2009 Worries that the notorious Conficker worm will somehow rise up and devastate the Internet on April 1 are misplaced, security experts [...]
Did you check your Twitterank last week when everyone was tweeting about it? Better change your twitter password …. http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=163
