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Author :: Vickie Scanlon  |
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| Article Title :: SCAMS – Be Aware – And Report When Necessary |
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| The Internet is a vast International Network of people and businesses – and a place where people can make a fairly decent living. However, it is also a place where certain unsavory characters can freely roam – to take your dollars and run. Scams – the human mind can be either pure or devious – and it is the devious mind that you have to look out for and be aware of at all time.The easy marks to a scam are those that are new, inexperienced, or those that are desperately looking for a way to make some money, that the swindler will usually target. Emotional hype and false sincerity are their ticket to a scam. Some are obvious, but others are not. Now, I mean no insult if (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Jim Edwards |
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| Article Title :: Is "Spyware" Watching You? |
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| Imagine my surprise when I received a phone call from a
friend who told me he'd been the victim of a "spyware"
attack that left him shaking at his loss of privacy.I listened to his horror story with a sympathetic ear, but
I felt secure since I carry anti-virus software and a
firewall (both by Norton).At his suggestion - and to my surprise - I ran a program
called "Spy Sweeper" and found a veritable minefield of
dangerous and harmful programs lurking on my computer."Spyware" is software that gets onto your computer and
literally "spies" on your activities.The spying can range from relatively harmless use of
cookies tracking you across multiple websites... to
ext (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Doug Woodall |
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| Article Title :: It's War I Tell You! |
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| There are ways to insure security though. You can get the Windows Update CD from Microsoft and install that before you get online, You can also get most Antivirus Definitions downloaded and save them to disk, then install those before you go online, (of course you have to be using that Product in the first place), and you can get Anti-Spyware on a disk and do the same. But how many people do that in their excitement to take their new computer out of the box and hook it and see what it will do? Sans Internet Storm Center says those people will have their computer infected with adware or worse in less than 20 minutes! Virgin computers online are an easy target, open to attack. When that per (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: David Deprice |
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| Article Title :: Five Excellent Indie Encryption And Security Solutions You Have Not Heard About |
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| 1. Geek Superhero
http://www.deprice.com/geeksuperhero.htmGeek Superhero watches your computer for changes, immediately notifying you when a change is made to confirm you want to keep or reject the change. This saves you from lots of headaches. (A "Computer Setting Firewall" is an excellent description.)2. CleverCrypt Enhanced
http://www.deprice.com/clevercryptenhanced.htmUsing the latest developments in information security, CleverCrypt has been designed to use the best encryption technology legally available. The product uses 4 encryption layers to protect your data. Using just one of CleverCrypt's encryption layers it has been mathematically calculated that the fam (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Andrei Mihai |
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| Article Title :: IPv6 - Next Step In IP Security |
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| IPv6, IntroductionThe high rate at wich the internet continualy evolves forced the Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF) to find IP solutions to handle the grouth. Designed to handle the fast paced growth of the Internet, the IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the new version that will replace the widely used IPv4(Internet Protocol version 4) which is already obsolete.IPv6, Primary BenefitsTwo primary advantages of IPv6 are the support for stateless address auto configuration and the address space that is much larger. Other benefits of the new IPv6 are that the security is natively defined in the protocol, the simple Plug and Play (thanks to stateless auto configur (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Mike Ber |
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| Article Title :: Let's Talk About Antivirus Software! |
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| Nowadays more and more people are using a computer. A lot of them use it at their work place, but an increasing number of computer users have also discovered the need to have a computer at home. At the same time the number of Internet surfers increased. This is a good thing because people are realizing the advantages offered by the world of technology. As soon as they discover this, they start using computers and the Internet more and more, but at the same time not considering the threats that are coming in from all sides. They should know that if you don’t protect yourself, nobody will. These threats are now coming from everywhere and they are growing in number and complexity. First th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Lil Waldner |
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| Article Title :: Be Alert! Others Can Catch Your Money Easily! |
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| So called phishers try to catch the information about the account numbers and passwords of internet users. They deceive people with faked emails and websites that resembles exactly the originals of well known banks or electronic payment systems. They make people surrender their passwords and account numbers – and afterwards they clear their accounts.This is a peril for internet merchants, affiliates and webmasters, because they often display email addresses on websites, ads or articles. Phishers may pick easily addresses from these sources.Phishers try to worry you!They write you stories as follows:There have been unusual transactions on your a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Tom Raymond |
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| Article Title :: Clown Internet Scam - An Internet Scam is Currently Targeting Clowns and Other Entertainers |
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| I am the victim of an internet scam. It is very hard to write that sentence, but it's necessary in order to warn my fellow clowns, magicians and other entertainers, and to prevent them from being taken for $2,800.00 like I was. Here is what happened to me, and how you can avoid it.I run the clown-ministry.com web site, and I perform as a clown at both ministry and secular events. Due to the popularity of the clown-ministry.com web site (do a search on Google .com for 'clown' and it's the 7th site listed, for example) I'm easily found by people -- for both good and bad reasons. For instance, last year my wife Ellen and I taught clowning for a week at the Seventh Day Adventists' nati (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Tim Frady |
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| Article Title :: Message Board Security Problems |
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| Security leaks can be a big problem for any site using a message board. Hackers can actually use your message board to go in and change things on your site. This has happened to me at least four times. Once an iframe was added to every single page of one of my very large sites. Thankfully, I had it completely backed up, so all I had to do was send the pages back up to the server. Twice, the front page of one of my sites was hijacked. The entire content of the front page was replaced by some note from a hacker stating he had been there.The last time one of my sites had to be taken down to prevent the server from crashing. After calling my web host they were able to tell me my messag (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Ashish Jain |
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| Article Title :: Phishing |
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| Recently I have received email from my bank/credit Card Company, eBay & pay pal saying that my account has possibly been compromised and I need to confirm my details and password in order to get continued access.Spam email now has a new and more frightening variant, it's called phishing and it has been made by criminals and hackers who aim at getting unwitting consumers to reveal account numbers and passwords.Usually after getting an email like the ones mentioned above from reputable companies, most of us would race to respond as quickly as possible. However, in most cases you will find that you won't be helping anyone other then the criminal who wrote that email and who has (read full article) |
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