Shahid Sharif

Parts of PATRTIOT ACT scrutinized

Finally, PATRIOT ACT is being scrutinized for being too one sided and not caring about an individuals privacy.  The questions that are being asked are “should the ISP’s relinquish their customer records on a request from FBI” without proper paperwork.  FBI has in issued NSL‘s (National Security Letters) to get private & personal information from …

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DHS abandons anti-privacy data mining program

This highly intrusive program which violated personal privacy at every level has been abandoned, why?  Because the genii (plural of genius) testing the application violated all security principles by performing test on REAL personal data.  Known as ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement) was initiated in 2003, it was to be used by …

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Wikipedia entry cleaned up

Wikipedia entry was updated and the wikipedia folks were able to trace the origin.  This is one of the things I said in my blog earlier, how traceable your activity is on the Internet.  If the folks at wikipedia were able to get into the machine they could get a whole lot of information which …

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Monster.com information theft not really a hack?

Monster.com information theft was not realy a hack but more a case of identitiy theft.  How so? well… some gullable individual working for a recruiter or in the HR department of a company managed to provide their credential via a PHISHING email.  Once the hackers got hold of these credentials, they were able to use TROJANS to …

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