Posted by admin on January 27, 2012
Zappos recently announced that they had been the victim of a cyber attack and that their 24+ million customers would be contacted about the incident. The database accessed did not include credit card or payment data and Zappos has already performed a reset on customer passwords. The breached information included name, e-mail address, billing and shipping addresses, [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | 
Tags: Banking Information, Breach, Consumers, Corporate Perspective, Customer Passwords, Cyber Attack, Cyber Criminals, E Mail Address, Encrypted Passwords, Forbes, Fraud, Great Time, Identity Theft, Last Four Digits, Password Reset, Phone Number, Precaution, Shipping Addresses, Source Of Information, Zappos | 
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Posted by admin on September 6, 2011
In recent days, many people have received direct email messages which look like they’re coming from Twitter, but which are actually carefully disguised phishing scam attacks. The following image shows one of the offending emails, as received by a colleague. It appears to be a direct message from Lucy Holmes, who is suggesting she can’t [...]
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Account Details, Bad Guys, Colleague, Direct Email, E Mail Address, Email Address, Email Messages, Email Spam, Evangelist, Facial Expression, Lloyd Borrett, Lucy, Madan, New Email, Passwords, Photo, Twitter, Verify Address, Verify Email, Web Page | No Comments »
Posted by admin on December 24, 2010
You may be surprised to know that not all laptop thefts from schools are perpetrated by students or by opportunists. Indeed, some of the perpetrators may be school employees. A teacher and school secretary are facing allegations that they stole laptops from their workplaces in Maryland. The incidents were unrelated, though they occurred in the [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Absolute Software, Business Education Teacher, Charles County Public School, Computer Keystroke, Computers Computer, Desktop Computer, E Mail Address, facebook, Five Computers, Keystroke Tracking, Laptop Thefts, Lojack For Laptops, Missing School, Opportunists, Perpetrators, School Computers, School Secretary, Thief, Tracking Software, Workplaces | No Comments »
