Archive for the ‘ Personal Security ’ Category
Data security is something most people take for granted even though our computers and the Internet are inherently insecure. This insecurity is heightened even further if other people have physical access to our computers. With enough time, anyone can break into our windows/linux/Mac accounts, copy our internet history, our saved passwords and much more. I [ READ MORE ]
What is COFEE? “Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) Easily captures important “live” computer evidence at the scene in cybercrime investigations, without special forensics expertise.” That basically means COFEE extracts all important passwords, network connections, internet history, documents, photos and whatever else it thinks is important from any computer with a USB port. It’s a pretty [ READ MORE ]
Email addresses, much like the caller-id on a phone, are something most people just take for granted as being correct. What if I was to tell you that with 30 seconds of time someone could change their email address to yours (or anyone’s, for that matter) and email whomever they wanted? It’s called Email Spoofing, [ READ MORE ]
In the past few years people have become more aware of the danger of having their passwords stolen. Email, facebook, and twitter passwords are especially easy to acquire without any “crazy hacks” and by simply using some good old fashioned detective work and a little social engineering. I’m going to outline some things that most [ READ MORE ]
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