Archive: December 30, 2007 - January 5, 2008
Class Action Suit Alleges Sears Privacy Failures
Class-action lawyers are circling around retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co., just days after privacy activists revealed that the company's Web site exposed the details of customer purchases going back more than a decade. In a complaint filed Friday in Cook...
By Brian Krebs | January 5, 2008; 2:10 PM ET | Comments (51)
Holiday Spam Quadruples Storm Worm Infections
The flood of phony e-greetings cards spammed out over the holidays may have helped to more than quadruple the number of Microsoft Windows PCs infected with the "Storm worm," new research suggests. By mid-December, the size of the Storm worm...
By Brian Krebs | January 4, 2008; 1:40 PM ET | Comments (17)
Sears's Privacy Promises Broken?
Sears is having a bit of a rough day with the privacy community. The company got off to a rocky start with revelations that many customers who gave Sears their personal details after shopping at the company's Web site also...
By Brian Krebs | January 3, 2008; 6:40 PM ET | Comments (74)
Malware-Laced Banner Ads At MySpace, Excite
It was not for nothing that I led our 2007 Internet security retrospective and 2008 cyber storm forecast with a look at how online crooks are increasingly lurking on high-traffic sites to ensnare new victims. According to security researchers, banner...
By Brian Krebs | January 3, 2008; 4:32 PM ET | Comments (21)
The Mysterious Unsent 'Bounced' E-mail
The subject line from the e-mail that just landed in your inbox indicates the message was returned because it could not be delivered. Upon closer inspection, the message -- hawking cheap designer watches -- doesn't look like any message you've...
By Brian Krebs | January 2, 2008; 11:15 AM ET | Comments (27)
