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Money Mule Email Scam Hits U.S.
Job offer scam sent in email can lead to huge liability and legal troubles for honest people
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Network Security 101
Keeping your network secure is becoming increasingly important as the number of computer hackers continues to grow. This article gives the basics of Network Security.
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New CipherSend Online Security Service Thwarts Email Address Theft And Soothes Password Fatigue
A CPA that has managed websites for accounting firms for several years hired encryption programmers to inexpensively solve two of the biggest headaches his CPA clients complain about: email addresses being stolen off their website by spambots and being unable to receive secure documents from their own clients without passwords and logins.
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New Mass Mailing Spamming Internet Trojan for the Windows Platform
MicroWorld has reported the discovery of Troj/Sober-Q, which is a mass mailing spamming internet Trojan for the Windows platform. It affects Windows operating system and is also know by aliases such as Email-Worm.Win32.Sober.q, W32/Sober.q@MM
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Nosy And Intrusive Spyware Applications
Spyware can download onto your computer without your permission.
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Nosy and Intrusive Spyware Applications
Spyware can download onto your computer without your permission.
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Online Cell Phone Scams and Spam
This article offers some quick but crucial tips on detecting fradulent spam and scams from emails with special focus on the cellular and wireless industry. Webmasters should protect themselves from the quick gain; constant vigilence is the key.
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Online Shoppers, Beware of a New Scam
On April 6 Panda Software warned Internet users of a new brazen scam aimed at stealing private data. Several websites offering cheap airline tickets in fact weren't selling anything; the aim was to cheat users out of credit card details.
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Online Shopping: 10 Tips For Safe Online Shopping
Online shopping is one of the best ways to locate hard-to-find items not available in your local stores.
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Parental Control - Dangers To Your Child Online & Internet Child Safety Tips
As a parent, you have to ask yourself: Is my child safe when they're online? Don't bet on it.
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Password Security and Safety
There is nothing more important that password security in world of technology. It is the first step to creating a safe and secure environment. If your password becomes compromised, there are limitless consequences to what could happen. There are a few very important factors in keeping your passwords safe and secure that everyone should adhere to.
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Passwords or Pass Phrase? Protecting your Intellectual Property
Much has been said on the theory of password protection for files, computer login, and other network access. In the past we used a combination of letters, special characters, and other techniques to try and prevent unwanted or unauthorized access to our computers, resources, and networks. A new theory on passwords is emerging that may help us remember our access codes, be more secure, and generally keep hackers and thieves out of our networks.
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Pay to Play: The Truth About Free Online Music Downloads
Recently a client of mine was very excited to try downloading music after getting high-speed internet. After several searches for unlimited music download services, she came across a site that was ranked #1 among several user review sites. For $14.99 a year, she could get unlimited free downloads to songs, movies, and more! Sound to good to be true?
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Personal Firewalls - Secure Your Computer
Learn about personal firewalls and how you can use them on your computer to keep out viruses and annoying spyware programs.
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Personal Firewalls for Home Users
What is a Firewall? The term "firewall" illustrates a system that protects a network and the machines on them from various types of attack. Firewalls are geared towards keeping the server up all the ...
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Pharming - Another New Scam
Learn how to protect yourself from one of the latest online scams that has been popping up lately on the Internet.
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Phishing
Spam email now has a new and more frightening variant, it's called phishing and it has been made by criminals and hackers who aim at getting unwitting consumers to reveal account numbers and passwords.
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Phishing - A High Tech Identity Theft With A Low Tech Solution
Phishing is a sophisticated way to lure you to phony websites where you voluntarily surrender your passwords and account information to identity thieves without even realizing it. What can you do to avoid such a trap?
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Phishing - Identity Theft & Credit Card Fraud
Phishing is a relatively newly coined term for a kind of method for harvesting information for identity theft. Phishing is quite simply providing a person with false information or credentials to trick them in to giving you their personal information. This is done by a form of social engineering, by posing as a different person or organization that you already trust.
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Phishing - Learn To Identify It
Phishing is when someone sends you an email falsely claiming to be a legitimate business in an attempt to scam you into giving them your personal information. How can you identify it?
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Phishing - What It Is and How to Avoid Identity Theft
Phishing is a term used to describe a type of spam that aims to steal your identity. It can be attempted through email, instant messages, or pop-up windows. Phishers seek to convince their potential victims to provide personal data such as credit card numbers, passwords or account information.
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Phishing and Pharming: Dangerous Scams
As soon as almost all computer users already got used to -- or at least heard about -- the word "phishing", another somewhat confusing word appeared. Pharming. Does it differ from phishing -- if yes, how?
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Phishing – Its Signs and Your Options
Phishing is the act of some individual sending an email to a user in an attempt to scam the user to release personal information. Is it easy to determine if it's a scam? Sometimes - but not always. I hope to give you enough examples and information to help you to safeguard yourself from these unsavory individuals.
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Phishing, Fraudulent, and Malicious Websites
The Internet is not so safe as we users would like it to be. There are dangers should be aware of and websites we'd better not visit.
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Phishing-Based Scams: A Couple of New Ones
Phishing in its "classic" variant is relatively well-known. PC users are getting more cautious about e-mails asking for personal and/or financial information. But fraudsters invent new techniques to delude people. Here are just two of the newest.
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Phishing: A Scary Way of Life
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified "phishing" as the "hottest and most troubling new scam on the Internet."
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Phishing: An Interesting Twist On A Common Scam
the practice of
luring unsuspecting Internet users to a fake Web site by
using authentic-looking email with the real organization's
logo, in an attempt to steal passwords, financial or
personal information, or introduce a virus attack; the
creation of a Web site replica for fooling unsuspecting
Internet users into submitting personal or financial
information or passwords
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Practice Safe Security, or Else
Train your employees to be computer security aware. Your security program cannot succeed unless everyone joins and actively practices safe security.
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Preventing Online Identity Theft
Identity theft is one of the most common criminal acts in society today. Criminals will use your personal information such as banking accounts and passwords, to pretend that they are you. There are things that you can do to help prevent such a crime. It costs very little to protect your information, and it is money well spent.
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Privacy and Google, Yahoo, MSN - The Tradeoff?
While doing some work, I came across an article about privacy issues and how Google and all the other big names like Yahoo, MSN have huge amounts of data to profile their users.
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