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 […]

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

Came across this article today about the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Caltech performing detailed background checks on their employees.  I agree every employer has the right with employees’ permission to perform a background check.  Employers should ensure that the background checks are commensurate with the duty the employee is to perform.  The fact that

Of all the organizations, IRS the money Police seems to have a flaw in their business practices.  The issue came to light when a caller called a number of IRS managers, contractors, other employees posing as in IT guy, and requested the to provide them their user ID’s  and passwords, to which they willingly complied.