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  • Phone Phishing Scam by Ammyy.com
    Usually I get my “phishing” done via email.  This one used the good old telephone!!  I just got a phone call from “Mark,” who was obviously from India.  He called to inform me that I probably had downloaded some viruses and would I “please to like help” removing them? I w...
  • How Fast Can Your Password Be Cracked?
    When I teach my computer security class, I show an example of how much difference using a longer or more complex password can make in terms of total number of attempts required to break a password using automated brute force methods that simply try all possible combinations against a password. ...
  • Securing Your Wireless Network
    For people running home or small business wireless networks there are a few tips that can help you run your wireless access point more securely. Don’t let everyone use your network.  A wireless access point will work out of the box, just power it up and plug it into your DSL or cable modem.&...
  • With Help Like This…
    A recent article in IT World has described a Windows flaw that can be used by malicious hackers to install software exploits by using a vulnerability in the Help function of Internet Explorer on a Windows XP machine.  Evidently the exploit works when criminal cybergangs gain access to a web sit...
  • Botnets and Identity Thieves – Its the Money Part 2
    I read a number of computer security related blogs and email newsletters, and a couple of items came across my desk (ok, through my inbox) today that I thought worth passing on. For those of you who wonder why people write malware, here are a couple of articles worth a read. (I won’t call th...
  • Whatever Happened To All The Good Viruses?
    This post is another in my continuing series of warnings about the changing nature of security threats on the Internet.  There has been an almost total disappearance of the kind of disruptive mail mailing viruses, like the ILoveYou or Anna Kournicova viruses.  the reason for this is that the natu...
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