So apparently FBI Director Robert Mueller was nearly caught up in a phishing scam. When he choose to share his near miss with his wife as a “teachable moment” she banned him from handling their online accounts. Director Mueller agreed that he should have been more aware of the scam than he was. [...]

CNET has a story on a bill that would allow the President of the United States to takeover private networks in response to a “cybersecurity emergency”. However the bill is vague on what constitutes such an emergency. As is so often the case this legislation is drafted by a bunch of politicians and [...]

So kids gather around and I’m going to tell you a frighteningly funny story. I was helping my brother configure his new Palm Pre to send/receive e-mail and wanted to use Sprint’s SMTP server. To do that I needed to know or set the password for the account the phone was using. [...]

So I have been watching the Sarah Palin e-mail hacking story to understand what happened. After hearing that this account was apparently hacked by using changing the password via Yahoo’s own password reset function. CNET explains:
When Yahoo Mail prompted for Palin’s birthday, one poster said it took only 15 seconds on Wikipedia to [...]

Well the 5 or so year security streak by SQL Server has come to an end. Today Microsoft announced a couple of SQL Server security vulnerabilities. Bringing their steak of no security bulletins since 2003 to an end. It’s unfortunate but since humans program SQL Server there will be errors. Microsoft [...]