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« Previous EntriesSteps to protect your business against cybercrime
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009It is estimated business losses from cybercrime are as high as $1 trillion a year worldwide.
Fail-safe protection doesn’t exist. Even the Pentagon, with a brigade of the best computer specialists, gets hit repeatedly.
Crooks will go where the taking is easiest, just as car thieves will grab a radio from an unlocked car before going through [...]
Avoid phishing scams
Sunday, August 9th, 2009Phishing has been around a while now and I’m sure almost all of us have heard the term.
Phishing is email scams that try to get you to divulge your personal information; such as usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers, date of birth, etc to steal your money or identity.
They are getting more sophisticated [...]
12 things you can do to keep your child safer online
Friday, July 31st, 2009A quick checklist to get you started on the road to Internet safety.
1. Buy all the safety software you need and use good filtering tools.
Keep them current and use them unfailingly—as automatically as locking your door when you leave the house.
2. Discuss online safety with your family and friends.
Decide together how you will help [...]
One technique for producing the prefect password
Sunday, July 26th, 2009Everyone knows it’s bad to use the same password for different sites. People do it anyway because remembering different passwords is annoying. Remembering different difficult passwords is even more annoying.
Here is a foolproof technique for creating passwords, that are hard to crack and easy to remember. Plus, it takes just minutes to learn.
Step 1:
Start [...]
Koobface worms attacking social networks
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009As social networks become a mainstay, attacks targeting them continue to gain momentum.
The Koobface worms (over 575 new variants identified):
• Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a
• Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b
• Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.c
• Etc
Targeted social networking websites (detected):
• Facebook
• MySpace
• Hi5
• Bebo
• Tagged
• Netlog
• Twitter
The Koobface worms come through social networks and transform victims’ machines into zombie computers to form botnets.
It spreads through the legitimate user’s account to their friends. Comments and messages sent by the [...]
Education and awareness are major tools to protect against cyber crime
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009From January to December of 2008, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website received 275,284 complaint submissions. This is a 33% increase compared to 2007. These complaints were composed of many different fraud types such as auction fraud, non-delivery, and credit/debit card fraud as well as non-fraudulent complaints such as computer intrusions, spam/unsolicited e-mail, and [...]
Tips for working with your bank, if you’re an identity theft victim
Saturday, May 16th, 2009In 2006, my bank provided an identity thief posing as me, debit card approval through an unauthorized phone number. Within a few days, the thief wiped out my checking account, stealing $8,000.00 before I realized what happened. For six months, the identity thief continued to victimize me. I lost $22,000.00, before I managed to catch [...]
Wells Fargo Jeopardize Customers and Make Profit
Saturday, February 14th, 2009It’s true Wells Fargo along with many other companies have jeopardized the personal information of hundreds of thousands of their customers through a string of security breaches and now have found a way to profit from the problem. So now, after endangering the personal data of about 700,000 customers, Wells is offering a service that [...]
Hacking Becomes Bad Reality
Sunday, February 8th, 2009Twitter hijacking: A scam in 2008 hacked major celebrity accounts, including Bill O’Reilly, President Barack Obama and Britney Spears. Here’s how it works: Someone sends a link which leads to a Web page asking for the user’s login credentials. It’s a completely avoidable – NEVER EVER enter your login credentials from a website accessed via [...]
You can get a credit card without a Social Security number!!
Monday, October 27th, 2008You are NOT REQUIRED to disclose your SS# to get a credit card, open a bank account, etc.
Most of these financial entities want you to beleive so, but under the Social Security Privacy law, a bank can not deny you privileges and rights because you refuse to disclose a number, which only identifies a government [...]