2007 July

Today Mitch discovered something that I would deem as critical. Even though the link now appears to be down (fixed), it seems that some people out there have taken to hacking into people’s open .htaccess files when they are not looking. Who are the fraudsters? Apparently, TheFirefox.net has managed to hack into Mitch’s once writable .htaccess [...]

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Today, usrbingeek posts:
Jeremy Kirk at ComputerWorld reports that identity theft and data security breaches are starting at gas stations.
Now there is a comforting thought. I [...]

For the informed, Yahoo! messenger phishing scam attempts are hardly new. However there are undoubtedly a number of you out there who may not be aware of just how clever some of these scams can be. Unlike scams of the past in Yahoo! IM, this time around they are coming from people who are actually [...]

Lately I have really been pounding the pavement for some cleverly thought out methods for protecting your email address when embedding it into a webpage. The most common methods to date, include “name (at) domain.com” or simply creating a GIF image of the address itself, are fast becoming less than effective.
Then I happened upon something called [...]