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“Hey, I have this sweet game on my USB drive that I want to show you.”
Don’t fall for a sleazy trick like that. A single, momentary penetration is all that it takes. Within seconds, all passwords on the target computer will be compromised; Windows, MSN and AIM passwords–all stolen.
You may be familiar with U3 USB [...]

Imagine: You login to a computer at school, only to find that your documents and files have been tampered with. How do you know that? By instinct, and a shot of hot blood rushes to your head because you feel molested. As if somebody stole your firstborn child out of his crib during the [...]

You would think that after all these years of fraud and deception on the internet, people would learn not to download suspicious programs. Especially those linked by spammy emails.
Ignorant, naive computer users (I originally typed “stupid,” but then I would be mocking my own mother) in Sweden downloaded a “spam-fighting application” to their PC’s that [...]

Starting today, people living in Northeastern Pennsylvania have every reason to change their insurance company to the Blue Cross. Making going to the emergency room more convenient than ever before, Blue Cross members can access their personal health records and fill out hospital-insurance related forms just by tapping a few buttons on their cellphones.
Developed by [...]

If you are a Penn State student, you would have to be blind and deaf in both ears to be oblivious to the significance of February 1st. Does this phrase sound familiar to you at all: “Time is running out… have you changed your password yet?”
Every human being in the Penn State system must change [...]

Someone is hacking your business through a device on your network that you would never suspect. Can you guess what that is?
Printers have evolved into increasingly intelligent machines with their own operating systems and server softwares.
A Computerworld article explains how the Blaster worm thrashed the McCormick and Co. company’s entire network through its printers. None [...]

There is no such thing as “hack-proof digital media,” and the recent cracking of the HD and Blu-ray DVD formats proved this once again. The copy protection in both technologies were supposed to prevent discs from being copied and pirated ever again.
Both HD and Blu-ray use a copy protection scheme called Advanced Access Content System [...]

You are probably familiar with the public lists of sex offenders available online for everyone’s eyes. These posterboards of shame serve as a powerful deterrence to committing rape and molestation. Shame is menacing enough to curb a criminal’s actions.
The web community is adopting a similar technique to fight hackers. A team called the Web Honeynet [...]

There’s a virus going around that sends the following message to everyone in your address book:
http://www.ghidul-universitatilor.ro/?5695
When the unsuspecting victim clicks on the link, the virus hijacks his email account and, in turn, propagates the email message to everyone on his email list.
A social engineering method like this is particularly effective because the recipient trusts the [...]