2006.12.21 Daily Security Reading
by Rodney Campbell on Dec.21, 2006, under Security
Keep Your Identity Safe This Christmas
Identity thieves love Christmas too, and with many of us traveling abroad or visiting family and friends, it’s the perfect time for them to steal your identity. Even airline boarding pass stubs can, in some cases, contain enough information for identity fraudsters to steal your identity.
Internet security firm Websense has discovered a worm that uses Skype to propagate.
The Windows clipboard is used for everyday copy-and-paste operations. When copying sensitive information such as credit-card numbers and passwords, the data is stored in an unencrypted form on the clipboard and is accessible from any web site with simple JavaScript code.
Two security researchers have made an early New Year’s resolution, promising to release information on a security bug in Apple’s software every day for a month, most likely January.
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