Just before Facebook’s privacy blow up, the company announced that they were going to make the service more secure against hackers.  I encountered something that was undoubtedly a result of these new measures.  Below is what happened with my own account.  I logged in to see the following: This type of monitoring seems to be [...]

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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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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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I received this phishing email today.  It probably got through Yahoo’s spam filter because it is image spam.   Clicking on the image in the email, takes you  to some site in Italy. I thought it interesting that it targets customers of the State Department Federal Credit Union.  Perhaps the scammers are targeting this institution because [...]

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