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Author :: Theresa Cahill  |
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| Article Title :: You Gotta Wonder |
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| Man oh man! You know I'd like to think I'm smarter than the average bear, but sometimes I amaze myself with my lack of common sense and good judgment.You know the emails circulating about helping those poor souls (tongue in cheek) "hide" their money overseas? You know the ones I mean, they come addressed to you from the Prime Minister of This and That country, all desperate to sneak their cash out of the country before the roof falls in... promising you the moon if you'll only "help" them.All scams of course, we all know that, but...Well, DUH!I must get 10 of these a week. I KNOW what they are, even when they change the subject line - my esp is going ballistic (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Theresa Cahill |
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| Article Title :: Do You REALLY Know Your AntiVirus Program? |
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| This morning talking with a fellow publisher, the topic of antivirus
programs came up. Seems someone somewhere is always talking
about them.Why? Because without a good system in place not only do you run
the risk of a potential, complete computer shutdown, but you put
your friends and associates at risk each time you contact them.Let's face it, the world is full of brilliant people who's only apparent
source of satisfaction is to make the rest of us using the internet
completely miserable.Unfortunately, they do a good job of it. However, you can, and
must, do everything to protect yourself and others.A quick little story might help illustrate my point... (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Paul W Wilson |
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| Article Title :: Tips on Understanding the Dangers of Spyware and Adware |
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| Money is the very crux of adware and spyware. These pose several problems and are a security risk.Adware is a program that displays advertisements on the computer whether you want them or not. They are not just connected to particular websites or free software but are programmed to start up whenever your computer is switched on.Programs like Eudora mail client display advertisements in lieu of charging registration fees for use of software. It helps developers recover program development costs. Kazaa the file sharing application comes bundled with at least three ad-ware programs. Two of them serve ads to the desktop while another redirects the user’s browser to a search e (read full article) |
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Author :: Robert Hanania |
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| Article Title :: Computer Viruses - The Basics |
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| In its simplest terms a virus is a disruptive computer code period!A computer virus almost always repeats itself and spreads by attaching itself to other files. Viruses can be made to host a number of harmful things on any computer from disrupting files to crashing networks. It can even be laying dormant, without you knowing it's there and then attack when least expect it, like right in the middle of downloading a large file or typing a long report.It can even be made to open at a certain date, sitting like a timebomb until it's time arrives. As you can see it can be annoying at the very least.I do not want go into all the different types of viruses here because ther (read full article) |
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Author :: John Tedeschi |
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| Article Title :: Accepting Payment Online - 7 Steps to Improve your Customer's Buying Experience |
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| Of course, the number one way you can improve your client's online purchasing experience is to accept credit cards on your site, because most of your clients will prefer to use their debit or credit card, rather than send checks through the mail.Credit and debit card purchases are immediate and secure; paper checks are the least secure method of making a purchase from an online seller.Accepting payments online will also make it far less likely that customers will forget about your site or its address, decide to buy from a competitor who accepts online payments, or put off making a buying decision.Once you're accepting credit cards online, there are several other ways (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Pamela Bruce |
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| Article Title :: Online Scammers Target Interpreters ("The Prince Bishop from Ghana") |
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| By now, many people (though unfortunately not everyone) have become aware of the tactics used by the so-called "419" or "Nigerian" scammers. The victim is lured by the promise of a percentage of a huge fortune that has to be secretely transfered out of some African country. Variations of the scam include supposedly winning "internet lotteries" or having a relative that you never heard of die and allegedly leave you millions. In each case, the scammer tries to get the victim to send money for various "fees".Over the years, these scams, which were once easy to distinguish by their combination of purple prose and bad grammar, have become more sophisticated. One of the latest variation (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Lance Winslow |
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| Article Title :: Santa Computer Virus Worm is Coming to Town |
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| Merry Christmas everyone and guess what? You are going to receive a present on the Internet this year in your inbox. You will know it by its name; IM.GiftCom.All, or Santa Claus Worm. Yes this little virus will be one Christmas gift you may never forget.Isn’t great how well the Federal Trade Commission is doing with SPAM in their special report to Congress on their hard work on the CAN SPAM Act? Well, it appears not only can they not prevent SPAM, this Christmas Gift will come to your email box by SPAM; your own special and personal Santa Computer Virus Worm is Coming to Town.It is amazing the number of media outlets that the FTC contacted to send press releases to in orde (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Matija Vidmar |
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| Article Title :: How bad guys hack into websites using SQL Injection |
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| SQL Injection is one of the most common security vulnerabilities on the web. Here I'll try to explain in detail this kind of vulnerabilities with examples of bugs in PHP and possible solutions.
If you are not so confident with programming languages and web technologies you may be wondering what SQL stay for. Well, it's an acronym for Structured Query Language (pronounced "sequel"). It's "de facto" the standard language to access and manipulate data in databases.
Nowadays most websites rely on a database (usually MySQL) to store and access data.
Our example will be a common login form. Internet surfers see those login forms every day, you put your userna (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Christopher J Enders |
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| Article Title :: What is the Role of a Data Recovery Company in Salvaging Your Relationship with Your Customers? |
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| In this age, the information age, data is the driving force of
many businesses, especially internet-based businesses. Data is
frail as it is subject to loss due to computer viruses, back-up
failure, mechanical failure, physical damage to media storage
devices, hard drive crashes, natural disasters, and human error.
When these unintended and often unpreventable disasters happen,
data is lost and service to your customers is compromised. Thus,
the role of a data recovery company is to salvage your data and
to protect your customer relationships from being damaged as a
result of lost or damaged data.Flawed thinking amongst many business owners is that the (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Lance Winslow |
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| Article Title :: Federal Trade Commission Says Phishing on the Rise; No Really? |
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| The Federal Trade Commission says that SPAM Phishing is on the rise in a recent report to the United States Congress? May I ask why on Earth we need an agency paid for out of the taxpayer’s money to tell us the obvious? I mean yah, Dah; does it seem worthless to you that we have such complete incompetence in our government that we deserve this? I mean come on? This is a friggin joke? Obviously this is on the rise all you have to do is look into your email inbox. What a bunch of crooks at the FTC taking taxpayers money to tell us what we already know and then putting it into a 116-page report to Congress? What a waste of paper, trees, and the rain forests, please?Do these bureaucr (read full article) |
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