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Author :: Tom Nelson  |
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| Article Title :: Scammer Will Not Stop Looking For People Who Like To Work At Home And Make More Money! |
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| About three years ago, I received the first email from Nigerian scammers. They have different methods to introduce themselves. Some of them claim that they work on some Nigerian banks and need someone from another country to help them to transfer a huge amount of money. They say that the previous owner of the money has lost his/her life in a car accident or airplane crash and they couldn’t find any other member of family to give the money to him/her and….Click here to reads some samples of the letters and stories they send to their potential victims:
http://www.work-at-home-topics.com/scamsWhat to do if you receive a Nigerian scam letter?
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Joel Teo |
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| Article Title :: How to Avoid a Phishing Scam |
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| Many scam artists on the internet today are getting more and more unscrupulous and this article will how you can avoid losing your money to these people who live off ill gotten gains.Other names for phishing include spoofing and carding. In all these transactions, these scam artists attempt to gain access to your sensitive credit card information and then proceed to take your money.A typical phising artist would set up a website that looks a lot like the real website and then purchase a list of leads and email those leads. We shall take each of these elements in turn.The websiteMost phising websites have domains that sound like the real one and these scammers (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: John Clark |
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| Article Title :: How to Secure Instant Messaging and Improve Communication |
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| Instant messaging (IM) has triumphed in the past 2-3 years among personal Internet users as well as within companies. There are now few school children not in touch with their friends via ICQ, MSN or AOL Messenger — but also stockbrokers, currency dealers, and the IT department are constantly chatting with their most important contacts via Messenger software.According to a recent Gartner poll, instant messaging is used today in 70% of all companies. According to the Yankee Group, however, only 15-20% of companies operate a solution for IM administration. In the remaining 50%, IM constitutes a huge, rampant infrastructure usage that poses a severe security risk for firms. The sam (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Natalie Aranda |
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| Article Title :: How to Shop Online Safely |
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| Online shopping has now become very popular. Besides vast information at your fingertips to help you learn more about products and services before making a purchase decision, you can compare prices with a few clicks whether you go for comparison shopping for computer hardware, compare prices for sporting goods or compare watches prices to find perfect birthday gifts for your loved ones. Home appliances comparison shopping could safe you a lot of money. As more and more people use the Internet for convenient shopping, con-artists are getting into online world as well. In virtual world, you send money with a click and without physical interaction with a cashier.Most online shoppin (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Deborah Baird |
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| Article Title :: Spyware - What Is It and Why Should I Care? |
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| What is Spyware? Is it related to Hardware?Well, no, Hardware is the physical parts of your computer while Spyware is a fairly new term that refers to software that gathers and then sends information about your Web surfing habits to its own Web site. It is often installed in your computer in combination with a free download that you selected from the Web, but it is occasionally installed just by visiting a Web site. Just as there are many types of computer viruses, Spyware is actually a broad category of malicious software, and known now as Malware, intended to intercept or take partial control of a computer's operation without the user's informed consent.Spyware t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Daviyd Peterson |
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| Article Title :: Hey Boss, is a Keylogger - Uh Spyware? |
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| A close friend of mine walked into his minority SMB office,
cup of coffee in hand and was blown away by this question
no owner wants to hear coming from his sales manager -
'Hey boss, is a keylogger, spyware? Of course the cup of
coffee hit the floor as my friends blood pressure hit the
roof. Like most SMBs or solo entrepreneurs they have no IT
guy, so he/she wasn't there to get fired on the spot. No, I
got the brunt of the frustration - being his IT guy on the
side and now we get to the global definition of spyware.Spyware loosely defined is unwanted, obstrusive (read system
intensive - memory hogging) and always potentially
dangerous software unintentionally (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Ken Savage |
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| Article Title :: What's a Root Kit and How Hackers Are Getting Into Your Computer With It |
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| A root kit is a set of tools used by an intruder after cracking a computer system. These tools can help the attacker maintain his or her access to the system and use it for malicious purposes. Root kits exist for a variety of operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, and versions of Microsoft Windows.The term "root kit" (also written as "rootkit") originally referred to a set of recompiled Unix tools such as "ps", "netstat", "w" and "passwd" that would carefully hide any trace of the cracker that those commands would normally display, thus allowing the crackers to maintain "root" on the system without the system administrator even seeing them.Generally now the term is not re (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Matt Sherborne |
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| Article Title :: Don't be a Victim of Cybercrime |
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| Don't be a victim of CybercrimeWhen you access the Internet through the world wide web it is extremely important that you safe guard your personal information.There are literally thousands of people around the world that make a living exploiting the security loop holes by accessing your personal identity, passwords and bank accounts.There are many more daily who are the victims of these crimes. You have a responsibility as a user of the Internet to take certain precautions to protect yourself from online crime.Internet users who access bank accounts, e-currency accounts or any source of personal information online, should be aware of the following method (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Doug Woodall |
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| Article Title :: Its Halloween! Spooks, Specters and Spyware! |
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| It was late, I had put off going to the Software Convention till the last minute. I just had to watch my favorite show on TV,
"S-Files". Its that episode where the Computer Salespeople all turn into Pod People and ,,,,well never mind. Its really scary!
So I'm driving down the lonely one lane road from my house to the Convention. Its dark and the shadows are creepy, I'll never watch S-Files again, I swear!I pull into the parking lot, the convention is being held in the old YMCA. Geez, its dark, only 1 parking lot light and its flickering on and off. As I walk up to the entrance, I remember the old story about how, back in the Dot.Com days, when they tanked, the building was used (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Troy Winters |
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| Article Title :: Is Your Computer Infected with Spyware? |
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| Is your computer running slower than it should be? Do you find that de-fragmentation and extra memory doesn't help? Do you think it could be a virus? What do you do in situations like these? I suppose you'd run your antivirus software. But what happens when the problem still remains even after you've run your antivirus software? In situations like these, many people would turn to technical support. Does this situation sound familiar?Every day, there are thousands of Internet users who suffer from the same problem. This problem is caused by nasty infectious software called spyware. Over 10% of calls made to technical support relate to spyware problems. According to Microsoft, (read full article) |
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