The Roaring Mouse

 Best Western has announced that it has lost the records of everyone staying with them for 2007-2008. This includes names, addresses and credit card data. To further add to the damage, all future bookings through 2008 have also been stolen. This means that in addition to your credit being destroyed if you are planning a [...]

Attacks are moving from trying to take over thousands of individual computers to taking over servers. It can be difficult to take over all these computers and there is more money to be made in targeted attacks. The latest series of hacking attacks has been against e-commerce sites and news sites that people go to [...]

Hackers have created a new way of getting users to click on unknown emails. Very official mails are showing up that use real CNN graphics and have a list of real news articles. Each article has a link to a supposed video of the story. When the user clicks on the link a pop-up asks [...]

For the disabled traveling can be a complicated task without TSA to make things worse. Air travelers have had to put up with removing their shoes and to have every bag searched for no apparent reason. Spinal cord patients have been barred entry on the airplane because of metal rods in their backs as well [...]

This was the single largest theft of credit cards in US history. Over 40 million credit cards, along with personal information on each customer was stolen using a very intricate method. The hackers employed war driving, where one person in a car drives around a store and another person in the car has a laptop [...]

The Washington Post has a story on the booming business of selling your medical treatment history. There are several companies that keep track of what doctors your visit, hospital that you have been admitted to, and which prescription drugs you are presently taking. Using that information, rating companies are creating a health rating for you [...]

There is another scam to be added to the mountain of Nigerian bank scams and numerous American bank login and password stealing sites - bogus airline tickets. Victims receive a very official looking invoice saying that they have booked a flight using their credit card for around $400.00US. There is a zip attachment that supposedly [...]

By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources.com
Google, parent company to YouTube the extremely popular video sharing site has been forced by US courts to disclose every user whoever used the site. Viacom has said that virtually everything on YouTube is owned by them and that copyright violations have been happening since YouTube has opened. The judge determined [...]

 
By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
We reported earlier that Charter Communications was planning on installing an intrusive set of software packages to track everything that was done on a data connection. They were planning on collecting websites visited, cookies, P2P messages and any other data that was sent across their lines. Supposedly this was to [...]

 The Examiner-Enterprise has a story on the taxability of disability pay. Most of us believe that our disability pay is completely tax free except for our Social Security Disability pay (85% taxability). Unfortunately it is much more complicated then that and can cause problems on tax day. If your disability pay comes from a tax [...]