Ever wonder how someone who just fell victim to a scam could be so stupid? Well, that’s basically the thesis of one interesting paper published by Frank Stajano and Paul Wilson. (Paul Wilson produces and stars in the British television show The Real Hustle, which features hidden camera demonstrations of con games.) The paper, entitled Understanding scam victims: seven principles for systems security, was published by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. The message of the paper is that …

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Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) are working together to remind consumers to think about savings and safety this holiday season and into the New Year. With the NFPA reporting that December and January are the peak months for the overall number of home fires, deaths and injuries, safety is an issue than can often be overlooked with detrimental consequences. Below is a Press Release from UL. Surveys from the National Retail Federation and Information…

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If you are reading this you have already taken the initial steps to learn more about home security. Perhaps you have bought and installed a home alarm system and you are now deciding whether or not your alarm should be monitored. If this is the case, you should know that there are some advantages to each choice. First, monitored alarms provide increased security, but they do so at a price. You must…

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Home Security Store has pushed the limits of design with the use of AspDotNetStorefront’s ML Platform. At Home Security Store thousands of security products are being handled and sold flawlessly on a daily basis. In addition to the extensive out of the box features, some of the impressive customizations added are: XML based Custom Filters by Category, Custom Filters with Admin, Heavily customized XML Packages for site navigation and product display, customized shipping estimate module, review/approval system for product …

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), working with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Samuelson Clinic), announced that they have filed a lawsuit against a half-dozen government agencies for refusing to disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance. The following information is from an EFF press release. Recent news reports have publicized the government’s use of social networking data as evidence in various…

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