Simply put, media should be media, programs should be programs. Putting code or commands into media like movies, music, e-mail etc allows for viruses or worse and no one should have to worry about that. Well, worry.
If you put the new Blu-ray Iron Man movie into your computer it will try to
connect to the Internet and download something (some
horrible DRM program probably?).
Tags:
Blu-Ray,
DRM
Sarah Palin's Yahoo account has been
broken into and e-mails found there posted to Wikileaks. I would say this was a pretty rotten thing to do, but the perpetrators claim they did it to prove that Palin has been using her private e-mail to circumvent recordkeeping laws about government business. If that's true, then perhaps this needed to happen.
(H/T to
privacyorg for the link)
Tags:
Account Security,
Hacking,
Sarah Palin
If you’ve been following this breach, the key problem here is two part:
1) TJX is the parent company of several other companies including TJ Maxx. Each of those companies shared data with TJX creating a massive database (and a single target for the hackers).
2) TJX (and others) shouldn’t have stored the credit card data in the first place and when they did, they should have used better security.
Though they’ll blame “clever hackers” for the breach, the fault instead lies squarely with TJX who’s business practice of storing credit cards against people’s will along with negligent use of outdated wireless encryption (WEP) first created a giant target and then then left a gaping hole for the bad guys to be able to go and get it.
Tags:
Data Abuse,
Identity Theft,
Negligence,
TJ Maxx,
TJX,
WEP,
Wireless Security
