I’m certain that at least a few of you have been victim to a stolen laptop. With reports indicating that a laptop is stolen every 53 seconds and that 12,000 laptops a week are are lost in US airports (source Fast Company), it almost seems inevitable that we will suffer from this loss.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
A computer virus has been circulating as a “Greeting Card” email message. The message title contains the words “Greeting Card”, “E-Greeting”, “Christmas Card”, “Online Greeting”, "Greeting for you" or some variance thereof.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Online passwords are now just a part of our daily life. Many of us don’t really consider how important it is to have a strong password or what it takes to make a strong password. Most of our online activities require us to provide a password in order to use them. A weak password can really cause a lot of trouble if it gets cracked or guessed.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Password management can be a pain and there a few things we should not be doing to keep our information safe. For one, you should not be using the same password for every site. If someone sees or gets your password on one of those sites you could be compromising all of your online accounts. But, having to remember a different password for each site is not easy and you'll most likely need to keep a document or file around to record all your passwords.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Have you ever found a USB stick in the lobby of a hotel? Perhaps there are two or three in a pile or on a display that asks you to "take one". Maybe you work at a company and someone has dropped of a pamphlet or flier for a product and left a USB thumb drive behind with "literature" about the product.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
It now appears as though the widely adopted wireless connection protocol of WPA is no longer secure. Researchers have found a way to compromise the wireless security protocol of WPA in a matter of a few minutes. The protocol has been adopted by a number of organizations and companies, which could be forced to change their wireless implementations. The news comes from to us from PC World.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Hackers and phishers are taking advantage of your need for election news by using President-elect Barack Obama's name to get you to click on links and run programs that will infect your machine with malware.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
There has been a great deal of news of financial institution failures. Many banks have been swallowed up by larger institutions and mergers seem to be occurring almost on a weekly basis. Unfortunately, the troubled banking situation has opened up a door for Internet scams and phishing attacks.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
A computer virus has been circulating as an email attachment. The “From” address indicates that the email came from a UPS representative. The virus is a zip file attachment with the names of “ups_invoice.zip” or “ups_tracking.zip”, or some variance thereof. The email is usually found to have the title of “UPS Tracking Number xxxxx” and states that a package you sent was not able to be delivered and that you are required ...
Saturday, July 12, 2008
A friend recently asked me a question about email messages. He wanted to know why he was receiving notifications that his email was "undeliverable" to person "xyz" when he doesn't even know "xyz" and insists he never sent the message. So what happened? Did his computer get hacked? Did he get a virus? Probably not. This is a symptom of a clever trick used by spammers.
CNET News
Sunday, June 21, 2009
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