This has happened to me a couple of times, and I always get panicked calls from clients when it happens to them. All of a sudden your email inbox is flooded with undeliverable return email messages, sent to people you have never heard of. Hundreds of them, spanning sometimes as much as a week’s time. See below.
Has your email account been hacked? Do you have to change your password? In a word, NO. You are merely the victim of “spoofing,” ...
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Here is a short video that gives the Hollywood version of computer hacking. Not terribly accurate, so don’t try this at home, it won’t work. The steps are:
In 2015, I resolve to:
According to a November 20th post in the New York Times Bits blog, Android phone users need to be protecting themselves from a sophisticated class of malware called NotCompatible. This malware has been on the loose for a couple of years, and is installed either as a drive-by downloaded from an infected web page, or more recently as a “security patch” delivered ...
Let’s say one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to get a better job in 2015. If you are an IT professional looking for your next employment opportunity, below is a short list of employments sites, many that specialize exclusively in information technology jobs. For those of you who are looking at information security as a career move, be aware that there is a –7% unemployment rate in this sector. That’s right, there are 7% more jobs than qualified applicants ...
Continue Reading →Every day seems to bring a fresh report of yet another POS breach and the release of yet another batch of credit card numbers stolen by one of the variants of the BackOff point of sale exploit. You have to be asking yourself at this point why haven’t security companies been able to come up with a way to detect and remove this malware? It has been around ...
In addition to the traditional malware problems that we face from the cyber-criminals that are after your computer, your money, and your identity, we are now faced with a similar threat from governments both foreign and domestic. How do you know if your computer is under government surveillance? Software developer ...
We have to thank Star Trek for modern inventions such as the Motorola Flip Phone. If you are a Star Trek Fan, this web site ranks all 695 episodes of every Star Trek series ever on television.
http://www.playboy.com/articles/star-trek-episode-guide-part-one
You are on your computer and get a pop-up telling you that your computer is horribly infected, and that you need to buy this special malware remover to fix your computer. During the installation process you are told to call an 800 number to complete registration and activation. $300 later, you have allowed the bad guys to install remote access software ...
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Windows 8 and 8.1 come with a security software product preinstalled in the operating system, Microsoft’s Windows Defender. This is an extension of the Microsoft Security Essentials products that has been freely available for some time. Most computer manufacturers continue to sell Windows 8.1 systems with other security products from ...