Suit seeks class action status and accuses RockYou of “reckless indifference to proper security measures” in failing to secure its network and protect customer data.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Having taken some time off over Christmas, I’ve been taking care of some "Home Admin" tasks that have been on my todo list for a while.  I decided to document these on another blog site, www.homeserverhub.com, where I post more hobby and personal stuff.

Essentially I have two top level tasks (1) Consolidate your E-Mail Accounts and (2) Clean up the Clutter, with several sub-tasks broken out.

Read the whole article at End of Year E-mail Clean Up.

Reuters reports that Target was also among the many victims of the data breaches led by Albert Gonzalez that led to massive identity fraud.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Redmond follows up on a security researcher’s claims of a URL loophole that could let an attacker upload and execute code on an Web server.

What is BSoD?

The Blue Screen of Death (also known as a stop error, BSoD, bluescreen, or Blue Screen of Doom) is a colloquialism used for the error screen displayed by some operating systems, most notably Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system error that can cause the system to shut down to prevent irreversible damage to the system’s integrity. It serves to present information for diagnostic purposes that was collected as the operating system issued a bug check.

Every BSoD creates a Memory Dump, which contains several important pieces of information. The most important pieces, which you need to note down include the error number and friendly name from the ‘bugcheck’ section of the stop error (see above), and any file names specified in the ‘driver information’ section.

How To Analyze BSoD Error Messages

Keeping track of repeated BSoD error messages can sometimes be a difficult task for an average computer user. However, there is a freeware utility BlueScreenView from NirSoft, which scans all your minidump files created during ‘blue screen of death’ crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table.

For each crash, BlueScreenView displays the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename, product name, file description, and file version).

For each crash displayed in the upper pane, you can view the details of the device drivers loaded during the crash in the lower pane. BlueScreenView also mark the drivers that their addresses found in the crash stack, so you can easily locate the suspected drivers that possibly caused the crash.

Features of BlueScreenView

• Automatically scans your current minidump folder and displays the list of all crash dumps, including crash dump date/time and crash details.
• Allows you to view a blue screen which is very similar to the one that Windows displayed during the crash.
• BlueScreenView enumerates the memory addresses inside the stack of the crash, and find all drivers/modules that might be involved in the crash.
• BlueScreenView also allows you to work with another instance of Windows, simply by choosing the right minidump folder (In Advanced Options).
• BlueScreenView automatically locate the drivers appeared in the crash dump, and extract their version resource information, including product name, file version, company, and file description.

The best part is that BlueScreenView is a portable utility. That is, BlueScreenView doesn’t require any installation process or additional dll files. In order to start using it, simply run the executable file – BlueScreenView.exe. After running BlueScreenView, it automatically scans your MiniDump folder and display all crash details in the upper pane.

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By Doctor Security

A few weeks back, Facebook announced that they have updated and improved their Privacy Settings. If you are like most people that have a Facebook account, you probably didn’t even bother to check them out. I confess neither did I…until today. What I discovered startled me a bit: I’m revealing more than I want to “Everyone.”  Facebook defines “everyone” as anybody who accesses the Internet.

Facebook has recommended default settings for certain categories of information. Call me old fashion, but I don’t want anybody with access to Google to be able to learn all about my family and personal relationships, work, my education info or personal postings. This makes identity theft, cyber stalking, and offline harassment way too easy. I don’t think I have enemies but you just can’t be too trusting online.

One thing you can do to really protect your privacy is to limit the number of friends you accept into your Facebook network. Unless you’re a rock star or a politician, there’s no need for having 500, 600, 700 friends linked to you on Facebook. It’s not a popularity contest!

LinkedIn is fine for hundreds and thousands of contacts in your network because that’s all about your professional life, but Facebook was designed to keep in-touch with your personal network (family and close friends). Don’t expose your Facebook activities to colleagues, acquaintances and strangers. There are ample stories based on the negative ramifications from “wrong” people having access to someone’s personal life.

Please check out this video about Facebook privacy, if you want to learn more:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=366944610483

See my Facebook settings below, if you want an example of how restrictive you should be of your personal information. It’s a good deal more restrictive than what Facebook is advocating. Over time, I will venture back to these settings to fine tune them but for now, here it is:

McAfee Labs 2010 Threat Predictions report warns of increased attacks on social networks, as well as Adobe Reader and Google’s Chrome OS.

Originally posted at Safe and Secure

German computer engineer says he cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world’s mobile phone calls, reports The New York Times.

Earlier on this blog, we have covered on how to manage Windows Process with WhatsRunning. That applications allows you to view have a detailed look on what Windows processes are running on your computer currently.

The built-in Windlws Task Manager utility in your Windows Operating System allows you to quickly see ans scan, the process and tasks currently under operation. It also allows you to kill or stop any Windows Process. But, it doesn;t allow you to temporarily suspend a windows Process.

How to Suspend, Freeze or Resume a Windows Process.

Free Process Freezer is a tiny Windows Application, which allows you to suspend Windows Process temporarily. Free Process Freezer is an easy to use free program for suspending (freezing) and resuming processes. It works similar to Windows Task Manager, but instead of terminating the process, the program allows you to suspend the problematic process and resume it later.

This program is very handy when a process is consuming lots of system resources, but you do not want to terminate it. In this case, use Free Process Freezer to suspend the process without losing any data, and resume it later whenever you wish.

[Download Free Process Freezer]

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Lookout offers data security, backup, and management over the Web and a way to locate and protect missing or stolen devices.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex