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• in IT
  Zappos Breached - What Should You do?
  Not as bad as many others, but still some things that are worth addressing if you needed a wakeup call
  by smarchew / on Jan 17, 2012
• in Technology
  Review of Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
  A review of Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick
  by bkerensa / on Jul 20, 2011
• in Blogging
  Constructive Contagions: Social Media, Meet Social Engineering
  Can positive health behavior be embedded in online social networks?
  by sethelliott / on Sep 14, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “social engineering”

 

• Britain: National Patient DNA Database?

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 126
  The document to which he’s referring is here: Building on Our Inheritance: Genomic Technology in Healthcare. Via: Kevin Townsend: You have to look long and hard, but eventually you find it. There, on page 51 of ‘Building on our inheritance – Genomic technology in healthcare’ is the one and only mention of the ...
  3 days ago

• And Now… Precrime Red Spot Lights

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 126
  Via: AP: The police department in the city of East Orange, New Jersey is installing red spotlights to remotely shine on those police believe are about to commit a crime.
  4 days ago

• Air Force’s Top Brain Wants a ‘Social Radar’ to ‘See Into Hearts and Minds’

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 126
  Another one for your bulging For-Fuck’s-Sake-Roll-Eyes file folder. Via: Wired: Chief Scientists of the Air Force usually spend their time trying to figure out how to build better satellites or make jets go insanely fast. Which makes Dr. Mark Maybury, today’s chief scientist, a bit of an outlier. He’d like to ...
  1 week ago

• Pentagon-Funded ‘Fun to Play’ Games Would Crowdsource Weapons Testing

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 126
  Via: Nextgov: The Pentagon plans to fork over $32 million to develop “fun to play” computer games that can refine the way weapons systems are tested to ensure they are free from software errors and security bugs, according to a Defense Department solicitation. The goal is to create puzzles that are “intuitively ...
  1 week ago

• TSA Admits Wrongdoing in Cases of Two Elderly Woman Who Claim They Were Strip-Searched

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 126
  Via: New York Daily News: In an about-face, the feds have admitted wrongdoing in the cases of two elderly women who say they were strip-searched at Kennedy Airport by overzealous screeners. Federal officials had initially insisted that all “screening procedures were followed” after Ruth Sherman, 89, and Lenore ...
  1 week ago

• New York Police Will Scan Pedestrians for Concealed Weapons

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 126
  Via: CBS News: The NYPD is stepping up their war against illegal guns, with a new tool that could detect weapons on someone as they walk down the street. But is it violating your right to privacy? Police, along with the U.S. Department of Defense, are researching new technology in a scanner placed on police [...]
  1 week ago

• Beware of SOPA Scams

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 110
  Tomorrow, on January 18, 2012, dozens of popular websites covering a diverse range of subjects will be blacking out their home pages in protest of the U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA ).  Some of these websites are well-known, such as the English language web site for the encyclopedic Wikipedia and quirky news ...
  1 week ago

• Mercedes-Benz apologises for using image of Che Guevara to promote ‘revolutionary’ car sharing program

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 115
  Viva la revolucion: Mercedes Benz used an iconic image of Marxist revolutionary leader Che Guevara to promote a new ride-share initiative By Beth Stebner Daily Mail | Jan 13, 2012 Che Guevara, the famous Argentinian-born revolutionary and military theorist, wore many hats – including that of physician, author, ...
  1 week ago

• LinkedIn Spam Asks That You Stop Spamming – and Visit a Pharmacy Site

  
  Technology News, PC Security, Computer Headlines, PC Services | Hyphenet Blog — Authority: 111
  We recently wrote about spammers sending out fake LinkedIn emails claiming you had received a new message on LinkedIn and that you had to click on a link to read it. However, instead of being taken to the LinkedIn website, you were directed to a blackhole exploit site that would attempt to download malware onto ...
  1 week ago

• Zappos Breached - What Should You do?

  
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  Well, it’s 2012 and the year starts off with yet another breach – 24 million records this time. Fortunately there is positive news to go along with this story. The good news is, according to Tony Hsieh the CEO of Zappos , the database that controls credit cards and other payment data was not affected nor was it ...
  1 week ago

• Koobface malware gang exposed

  
  certifiedbug.com — Authority: 106
  H Security The five men behind the Koobface worm, which spreads over Facebook and other social networks, hide in plain sight, living comfortably in St Petersberg, Russia, according to Facebook investigators and other security researchers. ...
  1 week ago

• It’s a Girl: The Three Deadliest Words in the World

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 126
  Via: Independent: It’s a girl, a film being released this year, documents the practice of killing unwanted baby girls in South Asia. The trailer’s most chilling scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to contain her laughter, confesses to having killed eight infant daughters. The statistics are sickening. ...
  1 week ago

• Hotspot and Facial Expression Resources

  
  Influence Ops — Authority: 92
  Here are a couple of resources to help with recognizing hotspots and facial expressions of emotion. Humintell has compiled a list of videos with examples of microexpressions, hotspots, gestures, and emotions . Here at Social Exploits we’ve been slowly building a library of “interesting faces”.  The ...
  1 week ago

• 10 tips / helping your shy child at school

  
  Tina Gray {dot} Me — Authority: 459
  Welcome to  The 10 tips Series  – where Tina Gray {dot} Me readers and myself will share with you what we know. Scroll right to the bottom to find out how you can submit your own 10 tips. In this post, Alex shares her 10 tips to help your shy child at school… As January gets underway and the ‘Back ...
  1 week ago

• BSP fields more upper castes, Muslims in Uttar Pradesh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Lucknow, Jan 15 (IANS) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Sunday released the names of all 403 candidates for the February 8-March 4 assembly elections, with the list comprising more upper castes, backward classes and minority nominees than Dalits.She also announced her party ...
  1 week ago

• MIGHT the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE Condemn AGENDA 21? Good Story From NOlathe Blog!

  
  Virginia Right — Authority: 591
  NOlathe, a blog from the great heartland of Kansas, reports an extraordinary document being allegedly circulated by 14 members of the Republican National Committee condemning Agenda 21.  I usually do not quote an entire document ( here is the link) but here it is: Resolution Exposing United Nations Agenda 21 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Rise of the New Groupthink

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 126
  Via: New York Times: SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people [...]
  2 weeks ago

• URBAN PLANNER: THOSE DIABOLICAL TEA PARTIERS RUIN OUR MEETINGS...BOO HOO, YOU CREEP!

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 137
  http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/those-diabolical-tea-partiers-ruin-our-meetings-cries-urban-planner/ Tea Partiers stickin it to you, Dude? GOOD! It should be that way in every community in the USA!
  2 weeks ago

• Facebook WARNING: Avoid the “Switch to Pink Facebook”, “Switch to Red Facebook” or “Switch to Black Facebook” SCAM

  
  The Pc Tool Blog — Authority: 85
  You might be wondering where I’ve been since my last article last year, but please, don’t even ask!Lets just wish for a Happy 2012 ;-) FACT: it is possible to change the Facebook color BUT NOT BY USING THE SCAM PROCESS from the Facebook Wall post described below. If you are really interested in customizing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friday the 13th: History, Origins, Myths and Superstitions of the Unlucky Day

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 115
  Historically, the arrest of Jacques de Molay, the Grand Master of the Knights Templar, did occur on Friday, Oct. 13, 1307 ibtimes.com | Jan 13, 2012 By Julia Greenberg Watch out! Today is Friday the 13th, known by many as the unluckiest day of the year. While many will laugh off the superstitious day, others ...
  2 weeks ago

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