1) Toyota recalls, quality issues (Scott's comments)
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2) Freelancers are the new workforce; security in procurement (Scott's comments)
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| 3) Twitter phishing causes password resets. “The takeaway from this is that people are continuing to use the same email address and password (or a variant) on multiple sites,” he blogged. “Through our discussions with affected users, we’ve discovered a high correlation between folks who have used third party forums and download sites and folks who were on our list of possibly affected accounts.”
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Twitter-Details-Phishing-Attacks-Behind-Password-Reset-273647/ |
4) BB app that can spy on you demonstrated at Black Hat conference.
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| 5) Pay per install malware http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/24752/?ref=rss&a=f |
| 6) Carbon Credit fraud online http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/hackers-steal-carbon-credits/ |
7) More on Google hack by China
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8) Skype 12 percent of all long distance calls
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| 9) Jeremiah Grossman's blog post on browser security - "The Web Won’t Be Safe, Let Alone Secure, Unless We Break It"
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/web-won-t-be-safe-let-alone-secure-unless-we-break-it-020 410 |
| 10) AD/TD Coffee Mugs Available at http://www.zazzle.com/sw4spi
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| Top 10 TERMINAL Tweets/Text Messages... 10. [Texted while driving] Who says I can't txt & drive. Oh darn!
Railroad crossing gates coming down. I can beat the train.
09. [A scene cut from the "The Silence of the Lambs".]
I'm going to confront that obnoxious Dr. Lechter guy. Yeah, the one who talks
about fava beans and liver dishes. Snob!
08. I'm @ the bank now. OMG, its getting robbed. What the ---! Dude is
telling me to
drop the phone or he'll shoot. No way I'm dropping my new Blackberry!
07. Looking out of my tent. Ooh, a little bear cub. So cute like a
teddy bear. Wanna pick
it up. Yeah, I'll do it CUL8R
(CUL8R = See You Later. Rule of the woods: Where there is a bear cub,
momma bear is not far off and she doesn't like people picking up the
cub.)
06. Need some wild mushrooms for a recipe. Why go to the store when I
can find them for free in the woods. Nice one here, taking a nibble.
Why is everything going dark?
05. [Tweet] Still getting settled in the witness relocation program.
Lonely. Good news I'll be able to enjoy the Red Sox games at Fenway
Park.
(Sure will be hard to find him with that info. Nobody will ever guess
Boston. Also, the relocated witness had his Twitter account set up
with geotagging feature. See
http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/26810/entries/78525 )
04 [Tweet by a tourist driving in Italy.] Anybody knows what a sign
w/a red car & a black car inside a red circle means? Oh, I gotta pass
this slowpoke in front of me!
(Turns out the sign means "no passing". See
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Italian_traffic_signs_-_divieto_di_sorpasso.svg
By the way, you can use the Internet to study road signs in other
countries before you leave your country. )
03. [Tweet sent by Bob] @Liz987 Let's get together tonite 4 a hot time
now that your psycho gangster boyfriend is away.
(But the psycho gangster boyfriend has been reading Bob's and Liz's
Twitter feed and Bob though he was sending Liz a direct message.
Should have used a "d " instead a "@". Oops.)
02. Kicked bak anoter beeerrr. 6 pack donw. OK now its time to get the
chainsaw adn cutt down tht deead oak. Timmbeer!
(Deliberate typos to emulate drunken texting.)
01. [Txt while driving] Toyota sent me an urgent recall notice for my
car, but I don't have the time to take it in. Huh? Whoa! Picking up
speed. (Contributed by Jonathan Abolins)
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