It’s a often-heard story: a photographer is shooting in a public place and security shoos them away, or worse, takes them into custody. Thanks to a recent settlement with the NYCLU, however, all federal personnel should be aware and adhere to a clarified set of rules and, in the end, allow photogs to shoot away.The
Below is a rather bland FarmVille phish that was brought to my attention by a friend who had it posted to their Facebook account. The entire page is blank save for the fake login: Nothing spectacular, I’m sure you’ll agree. However, we did a little digging around on the same URL and came across a large collection what the site
There are large amounts of videos on Youtube right now advertising a site called Bestpadmedia(dot)com. Although some are being whacked by Youtube due to “terms of use violation” there’s still a lot of them online. The videos claim the site allows you to “download hundreds of eBooks, comic books and more to the iPad”. I’ve seen clips over the last few days reference everything from Marvel and DC Comics
If you’re not following Mikko’s Twitter feed, you may have missed yesterday’s news that public proof of concept exploit code for the Windows shortcut (.lnk) vulnerability has been released on exploit-db.com. This further escalates the danger of the shortcut vulnerability. So far, only the authors of the Stuxnet rootkit have utilized the flaw, but now there’s
StopBadware’s public comments to the FCC and U.S. Dept. of Commerce
The evolution of public policy as it pertains to cybersecurity is of significant interest to us at StopBadware. Our extensive experience with badware websites puts us in the position to illuminate pressing issues and possible solutions with regard to security, and we continue to focus on influencing public policy in sensible ways. Our Executive Director, Maxim Weinstein, recently submitted public comments in response to inquiries from the FCC