by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
Washington Post columnist Brian Krebs did a great piece “Eight tips for safe online shopping.” His list:1. Shop with a credit card, not a debit card2. Keep track of your receipts.3. Shop from a locked-down PC.4. Look for the SSL sign/padlock in the browser’s...
by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you’re searching for videos of the infamous Adam Lambert AMA kiss, Ortiz vs. Griffin or Jennifer Lopez at the AMAs, a twist in fraud has come to YouTube, this time in the form of a fake message on a video itself telling the user to go to another site. This message...
by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Someone put up a fun site in October. The “Mystery Google” search page gives you the search results of the person who did a search before you. The results can be… ahem… interesting. I tried it out with the word “Russia.”Here was...
by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Britain has stored the DNA profile of 5.9 million people, which is about 10 percent of the country’s population. It’s been estimate that as many as one million of those whose information is in the database since it was started in 1995 have never been convicted of a...
by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
I was interviewed by the CBC last night. You can see it at about the seven minute mark here.Nothing stellar or exciting. Just me on Skype talking about malware and child porn. I think I scared the newscaster though with my comments about P2P ;-)Alex Eckelberry
