Pay Close Attention To The URL's In Your E-mails (02 Feb 2008) More and more phishing scammers are starting to use clever eye-deceiving techniques with the URL's in phishing e-mails, making victims believe that the URL belongs to the real company portrayed in the fake e-mail. If you receive e-mails from your bank or other financial institutions, look twice before you click on any links.
Scammers With A Death Wish (02 Feb 2008) Scammers come up with the craziest ideas these days. It is hard to believe that people still fall for the ridiculous e-mail scams in circulation all over the web. It is even harder to comprehend how scammers think they are going to swindle people into believing their devious lies and unbelievable stories. Unfortunately, online scams are a harsh reality. On the one side you have innocent, uninformed victims walking into the traps of merciless con artists and on the other side you have scammers following a "shoot in the dark with a shotgun" approach to claim as many victims as possible.
What Are The Things You Know About Anti-spam Firewall? (08 Dec 2007) An anti-spam firewall application will, to an extent, help in keeping viruses at bay. There is, however, no firewall that is 100% hacker proof - there are too many ways in which viruses can be embedded in a software download or regular data, for a firewall to detect and catch them all. However there are some relatively effective firewall programs available on the market, and some of them are actually free for your personal use.
Phishing For Your Identity (08 Dec 2007) Who hasn't received an email directing them to visit a familiar website where they are being asked to update their personal information? The website needs you to verify or update your passwords, credit card numbers, social security number, or even your bank account number.
Spam - The Internet's Biggest Virus (08 Dec 2007) We all know that virus's cause our computers to crash, and unfortunately at times rendering them completely unusable. That's why we have virus shields and scanners that can take care of these mechanical viruses for the most part. Well there is a virus that has long been attacking the internet itself, and it is not mechanical-it is completely organic and it has a brain. This virus is called a spammer.
Avoid The Pointy End Of Executive Spear Phishing Attacks (22 Jul 2007) Rapid growth in targeted executive spear phishing requires enterprises to defend themselves. The best way is to teach executives to not click on links in unexpected emails or instant messages or, to open documents which are attached.
Are You Unwillingly Helping Cyber Criminals? (21 Jul 2007) Many PC users are involved in criminal activities without even knowing. Are you one of them? Find out by reading... Are you unwillingly helping Cyber Criminals?
