There was news this month that a man in England was able to hack into his neighbors bank accounts using information he gathered on their Facebook accounts. The man would spend up to 18 hours a day trying various banks and using the “forgot password” feature of their websites to recover the sign-in and password of [...]
It was revealed recently that Android phones has a security issue that makes you vulnerable to an attack every time you log into a unsecured website. Researchers at the University of Ulm, in Germany, said that any Android phone running a version of Android prior to 2.3.3 were vulnerable. That unfortunately affects most of the [...]
The U.S House of Representatives Energy and Commerce committee had submitted some questions to Sony regarding their breach of security and the risk that it posed to its customers. Sony actually answered the questions and submitted them back to the committee. If you want to read all 8 pages you can read it here. I’ve [...]
Sony announced that they will start bringing up their network this week in phases regionally. This after their network was down for a week after a criminal cyber attack on their services. Sony had taken down their services voluntarily and brought in a third-party security team to help them determine how the criminals had [...]
It looks like Sony posted a few Q&A’s regarding the inrusion that they had on their Sony Playstation network. They took the questions from comments on their blog and decided to answer some of the most common questions. This first batch seems to be mostly about service restoration and what was at risk. Taken [...]
For the past week I’ve been getting emails from some of my credit card companies telling me that a company that they use, Epsilon, had some sort of unauthorized entry into their system. It appears that this company is used to send out emails to customers and such. It appears that multiple companies that I [...]
I’m sure many of you have recieved emails in the past from scammers pretending to be paypal and asking you to reverify your information in hopes that you will give them access to your bank accounts. There have also been emails pretending to be your bank or credit card as well. We’ve all received an [...]