Cell phone text messaging (otherwise known as SMS, or “short message service”), is a lot of things. For teens, young people and many others, it’s a vital communication tool; I once knew a 20-something guy who almost never used his cell phone to make actual phone calls, but he texted constantly. For other people, it’s […]

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For those who think only adults can be targeted for identity theft, here’s the reality: Children can have their identities stolen, too. In fact, children are among the most vulnerable targets for identity theft. Frequently (up to 54 percent of the time, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center), the victim is under 6 years […]

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Last Tuesday, a new spam attack was launched via email. This harmless-looking message claims to contain top 10 lists from CNN.com, but when a user clicks on the link in the email, a pop-up tells the user that they need to install the newest version of Flash to view the list. The pop-up doesn’t allow the option of canceling the […]

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This week in Las Vegas, Internet security professionals from across the country converged for Black Hat USA 2008. The many briefings and trainings that were offered covered a variety of safety issues, such as phishing, malware, data theft, threats to the 2008 Presidential Election, and the DNS flaw we wrote about last week (Dan Kaminsky was in attendance to detail […]

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