A few months ago someone brought me a laptop saying that it needed its virus software updated. When I looked at it, I found that attempting to run any Windows process resulted in a popup window saying that the file was infected with a virus and that the antivirus software needed to be updated (in [...]

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A few days ago I received a spammy email that appeared to be from someone I’ve known for a long time.  I was pretty sure that it wasn’t from the individual but maybe a coincidence since he has a common name; that is, until I looked at the email address the message was sent from; [...]

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Rocky Mountain Bank, a small regional bank in Wyoming, has been in the news recently because it sued Google to reveal the identity of the owner of a GMail account to which the bank accidentally sent customer data. In addition, the bank wanted Google to delete that email as well as deactivate the user’s account. [...]

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With Twitter’s relatively new popularity come those who want to exploit it for financial or other type of gain.  A few weeks ago Twitter users were being sent links to malware.  Those who clicked the links were directed to a site where malware was downloaded.  The malware then sent out links from the newly infected [...]

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A lot of attention has been given to increasing awareness about phishing. The goal of phishing is to lure unsuspecting people to voluntarily give up their website credentials with the intent of exploiting those credentials for financial or other gain. Some phishing scams only seem to spam and propagate itself. Most web savvy users know [...]

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