Nov 10, 2009

Submitted by David Mercury from Google Reader: Small and medium businesses (SMB’s) face the same computer and network security threats as their enterprise counterparts, however they don’t have the same resources available. Implementing effective security takes a combination of tools and skills. Both cost money and both must be maintained and upgraded over time.Panda Sec (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

IOL Technology : Security A Microsoft security report has warned that cyber crooks are digging into computers for weak spots to penetrate with worms. (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Softpedia News - Microsoft The volume of worm infections exploded in the first half of 2009, compared with the second half of 2008, according to Microsoft. In volume seven of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv7), the Redmond company indicates that Conficker and Taterf have made worm infections second only to those caused by miscellaneou (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

ZDNet News - News Page One Symantec is warning about a new Trojan horse that encrypts files on compromised computers but offers no ransom note like other software designed to hold data hostage for a fee. Instead, a Web search for terms related to the Trojan horse leads to a company offering a way to remove ... Originally posted at InSecurity Complex. (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Submitted by David Mercury from Google Reader: Memento - David HoodA 27 year old former computer technician at Bank of New York Mellon was charged last week for perpetrating a fraud scheme that resulted in over $1 million of losses. Adeniyi Adeyemi stole employee information to setup bogus accounts with a number of different institutions. He then siphoned funds from leg (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

ZDNet Asia Latest Tech News Twitter and Facebook users were getting hit with scams on Monday. Twitter users warned about direct messages that said, "I make money online with google. i learned how here [link]," according to Twitter users. A Twitter representative said it was not a phishing scam because the site to which the .. (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Submitted by David Mercury from Google Reader: Microsoft used to have a stranglehold in the Internet Browser market place.Just as much, or maybe even more, than they did the personal computer market.Now this is not as true anymore.They still have a dominance in the browser market place but the competition has quickly caught up.With newer offerings such as Firefox, Opera (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

Submitted by David Mercury from Google Reader: Small and medium businesses (SMB’s) face the same computer and network security threats as their enterprise counterparts, however they don’t have the same resources available. Implementing effective security takes a combination of tools and skills. Both cost money and both must be maintained and upgraded over time.Panda Sec (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Ronn's Cellular Obsession Scammers are targeting social networks with phishing scams and relying more heavily on worms and Trojans to attack computers, according to security trend reports to be released Monday by Microsoft and McAfee. Phishing attacks saw a big spike in May and June, primarily because of campaigns targeting social-networking sites, (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

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Nov 02, 2009

Washington Post The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is warning financial institutions about an uptick in scams involving unauthorized funds transfers from hacked online bank accounts to so-called "money mules," people hired through work-at-home scams to help cyber criminals overseas launder money. According to the FDIC, the fo (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Submitted by David Mercury from Google Reader: Internet TrackingMantracker hunts people by following their spoor for a popular TV show.On the Internet, Investigators have to do the same thing. However, the digital spoor may be on a computer in Singapore while your prey is in Corner Brook Newfoundland.For this series of articles, the terms tracking, monitoring, and alert (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Submitted by David Mercury from Google Reader: One of the great things about computers and the Internet is how easy it is to create document files and then share them between machines and users.There are several formats that you can use to create files, the two most popular being word documents and PDF files.Hacker ManipulationOver the past couple of years, however, hac (Read More)

Nov 01, 2009

Submitted by David Mercury from Google Reader: In this day and age people are relying more and more on their computers to be able to do their jobs but they are still not paying enough attention to backing them up.Yet every computer user’s worst fear is that something will mess their computer up and they will not be able to access their files.That is why cloud computing (Read More)

Nov 01, 2009

Submitted by David Mercury from Google Reader: A while back I told you about a scam victim who was arrested. Stories like these always frustrate me because as a former scam victim I know the hurt and pain that you go through when you find out that you have been scammed, but these victims have that feeling plus more because they now have been arrested. They do not just f (Read More)

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