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A new service by a company called LiquidID is mildly interesting.

One of the potential hazards of OpenID is that your email address might get compromised and then life won’t be fun anymore.

WED 16 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Airlines take it to the streets

This is extraordinary and example of how technology may very well trump the old-school oil companies and commodities markets.

THU 10 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Weird ad for wireless

This ad, which is impossible to read (white text on black background being one of the Bad Things in advertising), is a poking-fun, sarcastic kind of thing ad to sell HP notebooks with an AT&T broadband wireless card

FRI 27 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Hijacking Google

Something cute that we saw with an Antivirus XP 2008 install (to clarify, this is a fake error page generated through a running process from the Antivirus XP 2008 Trojan)

FRI 27 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Raft of fake CareerBuilder jobs hit mailboxes

You may have seen a wave of fake job offers disguised as coming through CareerBuilder. The recipient is asked to contact the employer through an email address. Email addresses we have observed so far are:

TUE 24 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Facebook targeted by phishers

There is a phishing attempt going on against Facebook. Recipients may see something like the following:

TUE 24 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Teenagers face Jail for Hacking School Grades

Two California teenagers have been charged with hacking into their school computers and changing lackluster grades

FRI 20 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

New type of stock spam may confound antispam engines

It’s been a while since we all saw a big stock spam push.

TUE 17 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Palit GeForce 9600 GT 1GB Sonic

NVIDIA has been getting very good at topping themselves with each new product launch.

TUE 27 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Explosion of spam pages on Google Pages

It’s been a problem over at Google Groups. Now Google Pages is undergoing an attack by spammers.

WED 21 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Path Intelligence cell tracking technology

Path Intelligence (featured last December in TechCrunch) makes a technology that monitors cell phone use to develop traffic patterns for malls.

MON 19 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

New highly deceptive method for fake codec

Fake codecs typically push for a special “Active X” or “Codec” install.

FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

McAfee's deal with Yahoo

When I first ran SiteAdvisor (back when it was Chris Dixon and a couple of other people, with Ben Edelman lending a hand), my first thought was: A search company is going to buy this.

WED 07 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

CCTVs don't work.

For those who have argued on this blog that CCTV cameras help make the UK safer, the Guardian today reports that CCTV’s actually don’t work to reduce crimes, despite enormous cost, and enormous intrusions on personal privacy.

WED 07 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Another epically deceitful security popup

Pushes AntiVirProtect.

WED 07 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Apple capitulates

Much as I admire their operating system and hardware, Apple still does have quite a bit to learn about security, so we’ll need to keep pounding them when they do something moronic like bundling Safari into a Quicktime update (which included a security fix).

FRI 18 APRIL 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog