In September - 2006, Nicole Brodeur did an excellent article for the Seattle Times. The story was about Sherri Peak and how her estranged husband stalked her. Ms Peak’s privacy was violated with a hidden cell phone and a GPS tracking system. It is a frightening use of technology.
The part of the Brodeur article that [...]

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The Internet Storm Center/SANS Diary published the warning that members of the security community have been advising users for a long time, advising that Sun Microsystems Java and Jscript either be permanently disabled in your browser(s) or “keep as close an eye on JRE versions as you do Microsoft Windows patches!”
The ICS/SANS Diary advisory:

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The details of the security breach at TJX Companies becomes worse and worse, as more details surface. In the following article, please note how the company carefully parses its statements:
“The data breach at TJX Companies Inc. that exposed sensitive credit and debit card data on an unknown number of customers occurred nearly seven months before [...]

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Like many interested members of the internet community, I have been following with interest as additional information becomes available in the Julie Amero case. (Background here by me and here by Catherine.) I hope that it is some consolation to Ms. Amero to know that she has the support of so many people around the [...]

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Mother Nature may have finished ravishing Europe, but, as reported by F-Secure, the Storm Worm Gang continues. The rather far-fetched subject lines should spark a warning. The subject lines reported to date by F-Secure include:

Russian missle shot down Chinese satellite
Russian missle shot down USA aircraft
Russian missle shot down USA satellite
Chinese missile shot down [...]

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Alex Eckelberry, the president of Sunbelt Software, has written an excellent article about the Julie Amero case. Alex writes:
“The machine was a haggard old system that was not adequately protected against these types of threats (Windows 98 running Internet Explorer 5 with only middling antivirus protection, no firewall, no antispyware program, no popup blocking and [...]

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The storm Germany calls Kyrill took the lives of at least 44 people across Europe, resulting in more than one billion euros damage in Germany alone. While that storm raged, another storm hit the cyber waves in the form of an email worm. As F-Secure reported, The Storm-Worm that F-Secure refers to as Small-DAM is [...]

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*** I asked Tom Coyote if he wanted me to post this article. Tom’s comment was “nowadays, if you are in business and take credit cards, you are responsible for the protection of that data and it should never be dismissed lightly during an incident” or mishap. ***
On January 17, 2007, T.J. [...]

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With a new law enacted in 2005, daylight saving time will start and end on a different cycle in both the United States and Canada. In addition to having an effect on your sleep schedule, this change also affects your computer.
Many companies have custom scheduling, time calculation or billing applications that are date dependent. Calendars, [...]

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Sun Microsystems updated Sun Alert 102760 today, providing another “after fix” update posting. The vulnerability released by this alert is in processing GIF images in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), which may allow an untrusted applet to elevate privileges.
It is strongly advised that Sun Java be updated to Version 1.5.0_10 or the new Build Java [...]

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