Chain e-mail is a form of mail that tells you to send them out to a number of users for say a miracle to happen. The only miracle would be a virus or something nasty that came with them as you spread the infection to more users. All important documents, spreadsheets should be backed-up in [...]
Read More..>>Email is believed to be one of the best propagation means of malware on a computer network, with the advent of firewalls and anti-virus systems that filter them they have indeed gotten a lot safer but simple steps should always be observed when dealing with email in or out of the workplace. First, never open [...]
Read More..>>Everybody is being warned of the probability that attacks in the form of phishing scams aimed to obtain personal financial information this coming tax season. Tax payment season is fast approaching and the IRS has said it again and again that it will never contact you through email in anyway. More than 3,000% projected increase [...]
Read More..>>Search engines are again being targeted due to their increased popularity on the internet (who doesn’t use them???). Weaknesses in the security of their web sites have them being probed again and again for vulnerabilities which if found are immediately exploited. Similar to the past Google Attacks which had several hundred seemingly valid and authorized [...]
Read More..>>As predicted current malware is rendering anti-viruses obsolete with embedded self-morphing capabilities, that fools them into thinking they are legitimate processes running on the computers. The company has already settled a lawsuit by which it settled for accusations that they did not take enough data protection measures in their stores. The said breach happened as [...]
Read More..>>The grocery chain had 300 locations to which malware were installed allowing hackers to obtain credit card numbers, expiration dates and other credit relevant information. This is considered to be one of the most damaging attacks by malware on commercial sites that has all 300 servers infected. The store management says the attack used a [...]
Read More..>>These incidents have raised the question, were we ready for the social internet at all? Well it seems that this is more a question of take action now and do damage control later for the many problems we are experiencing now on the internet with bearing to the security of information could have been thought [...]
Read More..>>The huge problems associated with security and privacy on the internet has been an issue ever since it was created. The move of the internet from an information repository, to an advertising platform and to today’s so-called social network has been plagued by many security issues that were there a few years back but were [...]
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