October 2009

As a frequent flier with millions of air miles I was as shocked as anyone to learn that a pilot and first officer were preoccupied with their laptops while flying to Minneapolis from San Diego last week. The crew apparently was so mentally invested in their laptops that they did

Continue Reading Computers in the Sky- What a Headline: Wayward pilots were working on their laptops

Great news and I guess the FBI is following my blog! The day following my blog about large scale phishing attacks the FBI reported that “law enforcement authorities in California, Nevada and North Carolina arrested 33 people Wednesday as part of an international crackdown on "phishing," e-mail scams that trick

Continue Reading Washington Post: “33 Arrested as FBI Busts Global ‘Phishing’ Ring”

Apparently large scale phishing attacks resulted in compromises to tens of thousands of webmail accounts, hardly a surprise. However it is pretty amazing that so many individuals fall for the phishing tricks. As a matter of fact this morning I got an email purportedly from PayPal indicating that my account

Continue Reading No Surprise – Very Bad News for Webmail – Passwords Exposed for Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo!