by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
READ your credit card statements – reallyThe U.S. Federal Trade Commission has said it brought an action in U.S. Federal court that shuts down an identity theft scheme that stole more than $10 million from victims’ credit card accounts in small amounts and sent the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
This is wonderfully cheeky – a website popping up in a lot of Twitter spam called increasethefollowers(dot)info, that wants you to hand over lots of money with no real explanation as to how they’re going to make it worth your while. Example spam post:This is the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today I saw a Youtube account with an array of random World Cup moments cobbled together. Nothing particularly unusual about that, but what did leap out at me was the likely reason the reason the account exists at all – the World Cup stuff looks like a lure...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
The July print edition of PCWorld carried an (otherwise great) article “How to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi” (pp 94) that recommended Hotspot Shield VPN software. Unfortunately the magazine neglected to tell its readers that Hotspot Shield has some...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
Like it or hate it, ICANN approves domain for pornPC World is reporting that the board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today approved a dot-XXX top level domain for “adult” web sites. The decision comes after a decade of...