In the wake of the massive PlayStation/Qriocity data breach Sony has announced that they will be providing a 1 year complimentary ID theft protection service through a company called Debix. In addition to the ID theft protection Sony is offering other “gestures” of goodwill. This all sounds good on the outside and the ID theft

I received an email from Comcast (my ISP) announcing their “Constant Guard™ Security Service”. Basically, if Comcast thinks a customer is infected with a bot they will email the customer and offer to help clean up the computer. The Constant Guard service claims to do a lot more too, but Comcast is quite ambiguous about

Yeah, usually these things are titled “for Dummies”, but you’re not a dummy if you don’t understand, you’re normal. This is related to the program “Firesheep” and I will attempt to make it very easy to understand the problem. The solution is a bit more complex. It all comes down to trust and discretion. Unfortunately

  Comcast has announced that they are trialing a new service that alerts users when their computers are infected. You can read about it here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10370996-245.html. Essentially what happens is that when Comcast notices traffic that looks like bot related traffic they will pop up a message on the subscriber’s computer that indicates there is

Typosquatting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting, sometimes called URL Hijacking is a nefarious practice of registering a domain so that when someone makes a mistake in typing in a URL the result is a page they were not looking for. For example, if I was an unscrupulous competitor I might register the domain www.esey.com and try to sell a