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New data security bill introduced in the Senate
Steve Henn Jul 29, 2011
I'm not sure how anyone in Congress has any time to do anything but try to figure out how to get a debt crisis deal done, but apparently, they do....
LulzSec Leader Arrested (or not)
Steve Henn Jul 28, 2011
British Police say they've arrested a key leader of LulzSec. His code name: Topiary. He's 19 and he was living on the windswept Shetland Islands on...
Tracking Anonymous
Steve Henn Jul 27, 2011
The FBI has been raiding alleged members of the hacking collective Anonymous in recent weeks. This morning, Wired's Threat Level blogs unearthed...
NSA & cell phone tracking
Steve Henn Jul 27, 2011
This guy say you don't need to join a hacker collective before federal agents can follow your trail in cyber space....
Head of country's cyber agency resigns
Steve Henn Jul 26, 2011
The Department of Defense doesn't want to talk about why Randy Vickers resigned as director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. US- CERT...
The worst passwords ever
John Moe Jul 19, 2011
On today's show, we talked about how Microsoft is banning certain obvious passwords from new Hotmail accounts....
Sony offers identity theft protection
John Moe Jul 11, 2011
In a related story: your dog offers to guard that pork chop. Sony's PlayStation Network have until July 31st to sign up for AllClear ID, a program...
Scareware ring busted, cyber palookas shut down, gave them a little chin music see?
John Moe Jun 23, 2011
This memo item brought to you by a poor imitation of Edward G. Robinson....
Dropbox drops ball on security
John Moe Jun 21, 2011
There was a four hour window on Sunday, where if you wanted to sign into somebody's Dropbox account all you needed was their email address. Type in...
US warns China of a vulnerability in its infrastructure software
John Moe Jun 17, 2011
The Department of Homeland Security is warning the Chinese government that the software being used to help run China's weapons systems, utilities,...
