Critical Alert

After spending some time educating you on just how dangerous and free-wheeling reverse phone number lookup can be, today we need to cover addresses.
First though, let’s examine what the attraction of using a free reverse address lookup to begin with? In most cases, it is used to track down dead beat parents, lost loves, tracking [...]

As you remember last time, we spoke about having access to a solid solution for reverse phone number lookup. Today, I want to introduce you to another side of this coin. Perhaps more shady and even more disturbing than anything else I have talked about on here before - caller ID spoofing.
Caller ID Spoofing and [...]

At first I though this was merely someone who was having local DNS issues. Then I picked up on a comment made about a specific domain: turnkeyproperties.org . Using the default provided Comcast DNS servers, it turned out that I was not able to connect to this website. Alright, apparently it is down, right? After [...]

Think you are on the website you intended? Think again. Websites that use everyday may indeed, not be something that ought to be totally trust worthy.  You can thank:

Open redirectors
 ISPs that knowingly allow phishing to take place, generally overseas from the US
And of course, compromised web sites and message boards.

Just how big a deal is [...]

It’s something that most of us would never had thought of. Great networking options like LinkedIn becoming a tool for those who might want to go phishing for your personal information or worse, your identity. Using a technique known simply as “spear phishing“, the perpetrator can appear to become someone you think you may have [...]

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 [...]

           (Also read up on: Car Buying Scams)
(Also read up on: Best Identity Theft Protection)
(Also read up on: Gas Station Identity Theft - Time For Prepaid Gas Cards?)
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 [...]