Protect Your Online Privacy – Useful Tips

May 22, 2008

Tips and guides to protect your online privacy when you are surfing the net – When you venture online, the markers of your identity shrink greatly, and you are known only by your digital, electronic signatures. Any one who can mimic these can claim to be you, and wreak havoc on your financial affairs. That [...]

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PayPal Plans to Ban Unsafe Web Browsers

May 19, 2008

PayPal announced plans to ban older and unsafe Web browsers in an effort to provide anti-phishing protection with the use of EV SSL certificates. PayPal, the world’s largest online payment service, announced on Thursday that it is working on a plan to block users from making transactions from unsafe Web browsers. PayPal released a white [...]

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Spyware Blocker – How to Combat Spyware

May 18, 2008

One thing is certain. You have to fight spyware, there is no alternative. You cannot leave the issue aside, you cannot say that, “let it stay the way it is.” I mean, you can always say that if you like, but the risk might be a bit too high. You live the issue as a [...]

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MySpace Sexual Assault Lawsuit Dismissed

May 17, 2008

A federal appeals court has ruled that MySpace.com is immune from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site. The Texas girl’s family had sued MySpace and its parent company, News Corp., claiming that MySpace didn’t protect young users from sexual [...]

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Cyberstalking – How to Stay out of Danger

May 16, 2008

Cyberstalking has recently made its place among the most notorious and destructive crimes that involve the use of the internet. And not unlike real life stalking, it is also perhaps the most terrifying. Cyberstalking occurs when a person is able to gain personal information about you through the internet and online sources, and then uses [...]

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MySpace Wins $230 Million from Spam King Sanford Wallace

May 15, 2008

Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports. MySpace decided to sue when it discovered the duo had lured MySpace [...]

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Worms Spread Via MSN Messenger – W32/MSNworm.EI.worm

May 15, 2008

W32/MSNworm.EI.worm, which spreads via the MSN Messenger and displays a funny picture of a little pig sending you a kiss while it is infecting your computer. MSNworm.EI is a worm whose main objective is to spread and affect as many computers as possible. The means it uses to spread is the instant messaging program MSN [...]

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Instant Messaging IM Worms – Get the Facts

May 14, 2008

You’ve taken this course in internet safety and learnt all that there is to learn about how to avoid viruses and worms. You have installed advanced virus scanners, so nothing can pass through your email program and infect your Operating System, nor be downloaded from the internet or from a removable medium. You have installed [...]

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US Tax Rebates Phishing Scam

May 14, 2008

The scams rely on a technique known as social engineering to trick computer users into divulging personal information that the cybercriminals or their customers can use to bilk unwary taxpayers. The new phishing scams use spam e-mails to gull prospective refund recipients into providing their bank account information and other personally identifiable data via a [...]

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Phishing and ScamPages Kits

May 13, 2008

Panda Labs posted a report about a string of Phishing kits discovered recently, which unlike some of their better known counterparts are free to use. The news is not groundbreaking, but it does serve as a reminder that nowadays anyone can get in to the act of performing criminal activities online. Panda Labs is reporting [...]

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