Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

WHAT a disgusting disgrace! Bank Sends Sensitive E-mail to Wrong Gmail Address, Sues Google. A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data. According to a court document in the case, in August [...]

Uh oh. I hate reading this stuff Monday mornings…. but this security issue looks like a doozy. Flash flaw puts most sites, users at risk, say researchers ‘Frighteningly bad thing,’ said Foreground Security, of flaw allowing hackers to hijack sites, attack users November 12, 2009 (Computerworld) Hackers can exploit a flaw in Adobe’s Flash to [...]

Disturbing news from ComputerWorld. China is gearing up for “cyber warfare” while the United States blindly favors China with “Most Favored Nation” status, pandering to its Communist oppressive government, and free trade of endless toxic crap from the country…. unbelievable. Looking to gain the upper hand in any future cyber conflicts, China is probably spying [...]

It’s very risky to click on links, any links, be it in emails, in social networking sites, etc. A recent study said that there has been a 233% increase of malicious sites on the Internet, almost all propagating through social networking and emails. Yikes. Twitter is especially susceptible to malicious clicking. Because urls are shortened [...]

This is almost unbelievable to me! This news story is from the BBC: basically, researchers are claiming that data can be leaked out from keyboards– including the detection of each character typed– by monitoring the information leaking out into the power circuits! This is a critical issue for certain business who rely on confidentiality about [...]

In a rare move, Microsoft has released a statement notifying the public of a severe vulnerability in their software that they have not a fix for, yet. Microsoft is investigating a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Video ActiveX Control. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local [...]