Text messages on our cell phones make everything more convenient. Banking is no exception, and many banks now offer text message alerts and updates, such as notifications when our balances are low. Mobile banking makes many people’s lives easier. But of course, with this convenient technology comes another means of stealing your identity, and you must [...]

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This week, I had the good fortune to see a presentation by Kevin Mitnick, the former hacker who now makes a living as a security consultant. I went into the talk expecting a 90-minute lesson on the latest tools and toys that hackers might use to steal my identity. Instead, Mitnick’s very engaging lecture was [...]

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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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For the past several years, online scam artists have been using a clever email technique to trick people into giving away sensitive information. The technique is called “phishing,” and it works like this:
The scam artist sends an email that appears to be from a bank, online auction site, or other online merchant. The email says [...]

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