Just this week, I was consulted about what to do for three students who had their laptops stolen.
There’s a saying in IT world that goes:
“There are two types of people in the world — those who have lost data and those who will.”
While most people think of hardware failure as a cause for losing data, [...]

Technology is as fallible as the humans who create it. Trust nothing.
Even hotmail and Facebook.
(Image: EFF’s DefCon shirt with UV easter eggs.)

An old scam has been updated for the mobile 21st century.
Apparently there’s a new phishing scam that’s targeting iPhone users. I guess this means that iPhones have really saturated the market.
According to Sophos, the subject line:
IMPORTANT: Your iPhone Warranty Extension for 1 Year!
The forged sender:
iphonewarranty at apple dot com
The phishing scam is trying to [...]

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
I can’t remember the last time I saw a “hacked” site, but this is quite sad that a Turkish cracker has actually taken pleasure in defacing this hotel’s site.

I got a message on my Facebook wall today. It read (links replaced):

what up Jen?
get the entrie billboard top100 for your cell from [RINGTONE SITE]
i think that Bre is the owner and cool as hell

Slightly confused, I did some digging around and it looks like it was wall spam. Lovely. Another example [...]