I know you may not be feeling this way depending on where you live, but Spring is in the air.  How do I know? Easy, my anniversary has just passed.  For the 19 years I have been married, I know that once my anniversary is over it will soon be Spring.  Sort of my own bird like instinct maybe.  Wh...

I’m a very gentle man.  Like Professor Higgins, I am even tempered and good natured, whom you never hear complain. I have the milk of human kindness by the quart in every vein.  But…. There is a certain person upon whom I would gladly visit the vilest tortures that my twisted mind can imagine,...

I’ve been thinking a lot more about online privacy for the last couple of years, so I was already prepared for the current controversy over Facebook’s change in its Terms of Service, and it wasn’t much of a shock to me. I’ve never really posted pictures there, imported my own blog posts,...

A whopping 40% of the used hard drives on eBay contain easily recoverable personal data. Use the following guide to ensure your personal data never makes it out into the wild. Photo by AMagill. Kessler International, a computer forensics company from New York, conducted a study of used hard drives a...

Filed under: Computers A recent study indicates that women are more likely to be victims of identity theft than men, Forbes reports. Published this week, the study, which was conducted by Javelin Research, claims that women are 26-percent more likely to fall victim to identity theft. Last year saw 4...

Submitted by HireLyrics to President Obama's Transition Team Change.gov Citizens Briefing Book January 13, 2009 Train Public Security Intelligence to Recognize Satellite Radio Openly Broadcast Crimes. The internet technologies are not taken seriously by law enforcement employees when investigating c...

by Jeff Sovern Javelin's latest identity fraud survey, released yesterday, contains, at best, mixed news on the progress made in preventing and detecting identity fraud.  Here's the first paragraph of the press release: The 2009 Identity Fraud Survey Report – released today by Javeli...

Work with the system rather against it. I have always been a big fan of this approach as it proved to be successful every time it was put into practice. So you receive one of these phone calls. The girl on the other end presents herself as Jessica Smith. The company has to do something with financin...

in his January 29 Backspin column, Mark Gibbs wrote a cheeky narrative as told through the eyes of a Russian criminal. In so doing, Gibbs tells the story of how the criminal takes control of a computer and holds it for ransom. While his narrative is complete fiction, the story he tells i...

Kanye West should be, to borrow a term from his back catalogue, touching the sky this week after playing the Obama inauguration and debuting some shoes that he designed for Louis Vuitton. But people always have to get him down by doing things like hacking into his e-mail account, opening accounts un...