ABC News ran a story last night on the growing problem of kidnapping in Phoenix, Arizona. In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 [...]
Malware For Christmas?
December 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The Register is reporting that some versions of Samsung’s SPF-85H 8″ digital photo frame shipped with a CD-ROM contaminated with the W32.Sality.AE virus. The CD contains drivers needed to use the frame as a USB monitor on systems running Windows XP. Amazon.com has posted an advisory for it’s customers: Greetings from Amazon.com. We have recently [...]
Microsoft Patches Critical IE Bug
December 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Microsoft has released a special out of cycle update for its Internet Explorer web browser. The update, described in Microsoft’s security bulletin MS08-078, fixes a flaw present in all available versions of the popular browser, including IE5.01, IE6, IE7 and IE8 Beta 2. Computerworld has more on the story here. On a related note Mozilla [...]
Julie Amero’s Four Year Nightmare is Finally Over
November 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Alex Eckelberry has the details. After 4 years and 2 months, Julie Amero is now free. You’ll recall that Julie Amero was convicted of 4 felony counts, each count carrying a maximum of 10 years, for exposing school children to pornography. The reality is that Julie, a 40–year old, pregnant substitute teacher, found herself in [...]
Oh Happy Day
November 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A few weeks ago I published a short post on the demise of Atrivo (aka Intercage). Today Washington Post technology columnist Brian Krebs brings word that McColo Corp., a Northern California hosting firm that had been identified by the computer security community as home base for machines responsible for coordinating the sending of roughly 75 percent [...]
Election Day
November 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment
VOTE I voted about an hour ago… Turnout was heavy but not overwhelming, I was in and out in about 10 minutes.
Newsflash: Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted
October 8, 2008 By 6 Comments
Fox News is reporting that 20-year-old David Kernell of Knoxville, Tenn., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville for intentionally accessing without authorization the private e-mail account of Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Kernell is the son of Tenn. democratic state Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis, he turned himself in to federal authorities [...]
Atrivo/Intercage Down For The Count?
October 5, 2008 By 1 Comment
Being in the technology business this is something near and dear to my heart… It appears that Atrivo, also know as Intercage is finally down for the count. Gadi Evron has a post here. Brian Krebs has backgound here.
Sarah Palin’s Private E-mail Account Hacked – Updated
September 17, 2008 By 12 Comments
Scroll For Updates… Network World and Wired are reporting that Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo mail account has been hacked and that screenshots of messages have been posted on various web sites. From Wired: Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo e-mail account was hacked, and some of its contents posted on the internet Wednesday. The internet [...]
Smears, Lies and Politics…
September 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment
It’s getting so you can’t keep track of all the smears, lies and half-truths about Sarah Palin without a scorecard… Michelle Malkin has the latest here and here. I don’t even know what to say at this point… I don’t have a problem with hardball politics, we all know how the game is played and [...]
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