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• Manual Account Hijacking: When It Gets Personal
  The vast majority of account hijacking attempts are an automated variety running on botnets.  Recently Google released a whitepaper that takes a look at a less common, but more damaging threat – manual account hijacking.  The distinction here is that the affected account is hijacked by a...

• Six Social Engineering Tricks To Avoid
  One way that cyber criminals use to get personal information, such as user IDs and passwords, from unsuspecting computer users is to trick them out of it.  These sorts of methods are called “social engineering” in the computer security trade.  Social engineering is using trickery, dece...