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Phishing-Based Scams: A Couple of New Ones
Phishing in its "classic" variant is relatively well-known. Actually, 43.4 % of adults have already been contacted by phishers, says the survey released on May, 17 by First Data Corp.
Despite the sad fact that about 5% of phishing attempts are succ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Alexandra Gamanenko
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Is Your Email Private? Part 1 of 3
In a word, no - an email message has always been nothing more than a simple text message sent unencrypted to a recipient we choose. So all the email that we so blithely send all over the Internet everyday is neither private nor secure. Every birthd...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Mike Ameye
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Computer Viruses, Worms, and Hoaxes
In recent days, I was one of the unfortunate persons to receive the "Mydoom" worm emails. Not just one, but at least forty appeared in my popserver mailbox. As frustrating as it was deleting all of these nasty little boogers, I realized that some o...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : C. Bailey-Lloyd
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Cybercriminals Trick: Targeted Trojan-Containing Emails
Threats we ordinary Web users face online leave us no choice but learn. Haven't you noticed how many new things you learned lately? We are much better informed about malicious programs than just a year ago.
This section of our vocabularies grows ra...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Alexandra Gamanenko
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How Free Scripts Can Create Security Problems
With the Internet entering our lives in such an explosive manner, it was inevitable that Internet security issues would follow as well. While credit card frauds are an offline security problem that has been carried over to the Internet as well, spa...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Patti Santee
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The Attack of the Advertiser - Spy Mother Spy
The menacing campaigns that drive the corporate spyware and adware market is developing way out of hand. Who are these companies and how do they get away with it? They are costing computer users millions with their sneakware system of promotional...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Greg Richburg
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Secure Your PC From Hackers, Viruses, and Trojans
Viruses, Trojans and Spyware: Protecting yourself.
No user on the internet is safe from assault. Viruses, Trojans and Spyware can all effect your computer by placing annoying ads, tracking your credit card numbers, or even slow it down to a certain...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Nigel Wong
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Securing Your Accounts With Well-Crafted Passwords
In the past I’ve never really paid much attention to security issues when it comes to user names and passwords. Frankly I figured it was all a lot of overblown hype. This led to an unfortunate incident that involved my website being attacked, appar...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jesse Somer
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7 Ways to Spot a PayPal Scam E-Mail
Paypal is a great site and is used by many to send and receive money. Unfortunately some dishonest people are using the Popularity of Paypal to line their own pockets with gold at the expense of unsuspecting Pay Pal members. These paypal Scam Ar...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Mike Makler
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From Spyware with Love!
It's late. You've been scouring the web for that perfect present for your Aunt Bess in Idaho. You finally find it at presents4aunties.com. The site looks a little rough on the edges, weird colors and such. But they have that gift you know will make...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Doug Woodall
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Internet Scams: Dont be a Victim
As the number of people using the Internet as an integral part of their daily life grows, it is inevitable that the number of Internet Scams will grow. Unfortunately there are many forms of scams but in this article we will look at three of the mos...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Mark J Thompson
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Email Scams – Ten Simple Steps To Avoiding Them
According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) email scams also known as phishing attacks claim more than 2,000 victims each day from more than 75 million phishing emails that are sent each day. The APWG also claims that these email scams ste...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Lisa Smith
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How To Cover Your Tracks On The Internet
Every single time you access a website, you leave tracks. Tracks that others can access. If you don't like the idea, find out what software can help you cover them.
Anti Tracks
Anti Tracks is a complete solution to protect your privacy and enhance...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : John Deprice
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Breaking Into Your PC: News...
You'd better learn news from media, not from emails, security experts warn us users again.
Numerous emails with "breaking news" in subject lines are appearing in users' inboxes. If you got one, don't look into such a message -- delete it straight a...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Alexandra Gamanenko
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Website Security - Creating a Bulletproof Site in 5 Easy Steps
When it comes to a secure website and passwords it is all in your hands to create a password that a hacker simply cannot crack. However, this will require that you be creative and use everything at your fingertips to create the strongest password p...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Michael Turner
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The Important Steps To Protect Your Kids on the Internet
Internet is the ocean of knowledge. In this ocean you
will find beautiful pearls of knowledge. Also you must
not forget the lethal sharks (x rated sites) in this
ocean, especially when you allow your innocent
children to surf on it. The children ar...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Krishna Pai
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Is Your Music Player Spying On You?
In today's times spyware is a very serious issue and all computer users should be aware of the possible damage it can cause. It is estimated by well known industry insiders that nearly 90% of all computers are infected with some kind of spyware. Th...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jon Davis
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Pharming - Another New Scam
Pharming is one of the latest online scams and rapidly growing threat that has been showing up on the Internet. It's a new way for criminals to try to get into your computer so they can steal your personal data.
Phishing and pharming are related o...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Gary Gresham
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A New Low
A new variation of the Nigerian Scam theme
The scam artists are employing the Nigerian Scam to fleece unwary sellers who advertise pets for sale.
This is particularly despicable because not only are people losing their money but dogs are being ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : George W. Cannata
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Everything You Need To Know About Spyware and Malware
You are at your computer, checking out software on EBay. The computer is really sluggish, and you are not running anything else. You click on a link, and BLAM you are redirected to a search page you’ve never heard of and the “back” button won’t wor...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Mike Christy
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The Top Twelve Threats No Computer User Should Ignore
The internet is undoubtedly a fantastic resource for families and offers a rich vein of educational content.
However, there are potential dangers - welcome to the seedy world of viruses, spam, trojans, pornography, spyware and other nasties.
These ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Kai Chandler
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Virus and Adware - Fix them Both!
We all get the odd virus now and then, but sometimes that one virus could cause so many problems. In this article I shall be going though just some of the problems that these virus software programs can do, and how to fix them.
One of the worst typ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Daniel Nethersole
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Adware and Spyware: The Problems and Their Solutions
The Threat
10 years ago you could probably have run no Internet security applications and still have come out after a browse of the Internet with a virus and malware free computer, but this situation is no longer apparent. Several years ago, before...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Soroush King
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Dont Allow Hackers to Take Out Money from Your Bank Account
If you know what is the 'Fishing' then it's very easy
to understand the definition of 'Phishing'. Just
replace letter 'F' from the word Fishing with 'Ph'.
Yes I am not joking. I mean it! Phishing is higher
level of spam. Phishing is nothing but fi...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Krishna Pai
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Why Malicious Programs Spread So Quickly?
It seems that nowadays cybercriminals prefer cash to fun. That is why malicious programs of various kinds (viruses, worms, Trojan horses, etc.) are very often aimed at stealing valuable -- in a direct sense of this word -- private and financial inf...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Alexandra Gamanenko
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