Pod Slurping!

A article on CNET describes how Abe Usher has written an application that can be loaded on a IPOD to steal sensitive information from a corporate network. The process works by scanning the network and grabbing document files such as acrobat and word files.

New phishing techniques to fool online users.

Every day people are becoming aware of the problems posed by online shopping, browsing, and even messaging. The days of email that are obviously spam due to misspelled words and links that contain ip addresses instead of dns names are moving to a new level. The following post describes the process in which an actually SSL certificate was used to trick users into entering confidential information, a tatic previously not used before.

Facebook & MySpace

Facebook.com and myspace.com have become very popular online social sites. With the popularity also comes some draw backs. I found a very interesting article that goes over some of the pros and cons.