If you google for “saca tech ransomware” you will find a number of videos and various marketing pieces from Saca Technologies / IronOrbit talking about how to protect yourself from ransomware. But apparently, the company wasn’t able to protect itself,…
Tag: security
Secret decoded
The Secret app is a new iPhone app for sharing photos and text anonymously. The sharing model of Secret is unusual and intriguing to me. According to their FAQ: Your secrets are delivered anonymously to the people in your Contacts…
Another Twitter password stealing spamming scam
Here we go again. A site called GO0GLE-WIZARD.com is actively posting bogus (forged) tweets on behalf of thousands of compromised Twitter accounts. There’s a few differences from the similar twittercut episode a few weeks ago. In the case of GO0GLE-WIZARD.com,…
BEWARE: twittercut is a password stealing SCAM!
A quick search on twitter will show this site is bogus: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=twittercut DO NOT sign up there (or even visit the site). If you did sign up, change your Twitter password asap. Here’s what the home page to the site…
PicDoodle virus shows Facebook’s true colors
Facebook continues to claim that they respect users’ privacy and discourage bad behavior in third-party applications. Well, that must depend on how much they’re paid, or who you know, or some other random factors, because the PicDoodle app exhibits all…
FBI asks for broad expansion of wiretapping laws
As I predicted, the FBI has asked for new laws to facilitate broad snooping at broadband internet service provider facilities. The first question is what will this mean for end-to-end encryption. The FBI wants to force Vonage, 8×8, AT&T, and…
Plan for ‘terror market’ scraped before it got off the ground
On Monday, the Pentagon announced a highly controversial plan for a terror futures market (see news story) that immediately drew harsh criticism. Accordind to AP “[Sen. Ron] Wyden said $600,000 has been spent on the program so far and the…
