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Have you been framed?

Remember this article?
ComputerWorld reports that Best Buy sold "a limited number" of infected 10.4" picture frames over the holidays. They aren’t doing anything about it, claiming that any current and up-to-date antivirus software will catch it and it is more of a nuisance than anything to worry about. Yeah, and that is just a harmless [...]

Cannibalistic Phish!

According to my source: ComputerWorld, the Big Phish are using the Little Phish to collect your private data.

 "Phishing kit pits wannabe scammers against pro fraudsters
Big rats, little rats compete in a Net fraud pro-am; you still lose
January 23, 2008 (IDG News Service) — In a twist, security researchers have discovered a group [...]

Update to the Mac crapware: MacSweeper and a MS rant…

The idiot who made this crapware actually was stupid enough to submit a comment on my article below including a link to another blog revealing all the crap inside his program! Go, read the blog, really, I’ll wait, it’s hysterical!
Don’t forget to read the comments where poor retarded "AngelO" tries to tout his "application" as [...]

Just when you thought it was safe….

LOL!
Just when you thought it was ok to use that ATM card again……

Everybody’s PIN Number Revealed!

Boo! Hope that scared you mac people!

Just because you have a mac does not mean that you are "safe" from the nasties in the world. You can now join the majority of the planet and be scared right along with us!
ComputerWorld reports that:

"January 15, 2008 (Computerworld) — Mac users can now claim their first example of "scareware," a widespread [...]

Time to hide it under the martress!

Remember the wad of cash found under granny’s mattress when she went to the great knitting circle in the sky? Yeah, me neither!
That may not be such a bad idea though. Read on…

From ComputerWorld

"January 14, 2008 (Network World) — A new Trojan program is targeting unwitting users’ bank data by intercepting account information [...]

They were asking for it!

Boy, ComputerWorld is really cranking out the hits today….
According to the report, a site claiming to be "Hack Safe" got hacked! Geeks.com had to tell its customers that their personal/financial info may have been exposed during a break in back in early December.
For shame, Geek.com! It is time for you to turn in your pocket [...]

A picture’s worth a thousand lines of virus code….

Did you get a digital photo frame for the holidays? What about a pair of MP3 sunglasses? Or, perhaps, a new GPS after yours got stolen? Yeah, I sure hope you didn’t plug that baby into your computer…..
SANS Internet Storm Center reports that many of these devices came packed with an extra bang for the [...]

You may want to check this before surfing…

My friends at ComputerWorld say that over 70,000 web servers have been infected with a SQL Injection attack. What this means is that a site using a Windows SQL database may have been infected with an attack script that infects a visitor’s computer.

 This attack is not just on the archaic sites buried in the dust [...]

I [heart] Gary Warner

From ComputerWorld:

"Crime and punishment: The white knight of phish-busting

Robert McMillan

December 31, 2007 (IDG News Service) Until just a few months ago,

Gary Warner did not have the kind of day job you’d expect from an antiphishing crusader. He didn’t work for a security vendor or a bank, or any kind of company you’d [...]