Broke, not broken: confessions from the frontline of a dying middle class
The tears went from slow-flowing to uncontrollable as I stared at my son’s shoes in the middle of the kitchen floor. He had just taken them off before running upstairs after a long day at summer camp. He is seven and he’s been wearing these shoes since his birthday last November. The shoes were a […]
Miami PD Admits Rules Broken With LeBron James Escort To Jay Z Show [VIDEO]
Someone in the Miami-Dade PD has some explaining to do. The Miami Heat’s LeBron James was given a police escort to get him through traffic and to a Jay Z concert last Friday (August 17). That wasn’t in the rule book, though. TMZ reports: The Miami-Dade Police Department tells TMZ, its officers BROKE PROTOCOL to give LeBron James special […]
The Broken: Assessing Corporate Security in 2012 to Make a Better 2013
by Paul Jaramillo, CISSP, EnCE So as we are about to close out 2012, many of us in the IT Security community look around and try to assess where we were, what we have accomplished this year, and what is next. I’ve been working in IT since the late 90s with a focus on security […]
Online Dating Tips To Prevent Scams And Broken Hearts
The Internet has made dating so much easier than in years past. Before one had to go to one of those happening clubs and hit on everything within a five mile radius before they found someone desperate enough to agree … View full post on online dating scam – Yahoo! News Search Results View full […]
Mumbai Police claim to have ‘broken’ underworld’s back-bone
A top Mumbai Police official Tuesday claimed that the force had ‘broken the backbone’ of the Mumbai underworld with a multi-pronged strategy. View full post on cyber extortion – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Listen: Man calls 911 five times for broken iPhone
Chicago Sun-Times A smartphone that refuses to work might seem like an emergency – but it’s not. Just ask Michael Alan Skopec. Kendall County Sheriff’s police arrested the man, accusing him of repeatedly calling 911 to complain about his broken smartphone. Skopec, 48, called 911 on five different occasions to report that his iPhone was […]
Sony suffers another security scare – 93,000 user accounts broken into
Hackers successfully broke into 93,000 accounts at Sony over the last few days, once again impacting users of the Sony Entertainment Network, PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Online Entertainment services. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
New York ID theft ring broken up
Police in New York say they have broken up an international identity theft ring that used fake credit cards to mainly buy high value computer products. View full post on computer theft – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
BlackBerry encryption security broken by Russian firm Elcomsoft
A Russian security company has upgraded a phone password cracking suite with the ability to figure out the master device password for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry devices. Elcomsoft said that before it developed the product, it was believed that there was no way to figure out a device password on a BlackBerry smartphone or PlayBook […]