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My fight with the gremlins in my machine
After all of the articles I’ve written about privacy, security and avoiding the perils of the web, I have at last experienced some of the headache firsthand. My laptop caught a virus, and while it turned out to be nothing major (at least so far), my experience reiterates the need for good protection against what [...]
Warning! You Might Be Fooled Into Clicking This Pop-Up
Have you ever been clicking your way through cyberspace, when suddenly, a very important-looking window pops up? It usually looks like it’s part of Microsoft Windows, and it says something like, “Warning! Your computer is at risk! Click ‘OK’!” Do you click on it? Is your computer really at risk? Is Windows trying to tell [...]
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Another spam attack, another lesson in not clicking every link in your email
Last Tuesday, a new spam attack was launched via email. This harmless-looking message claims to contain top 10 lists from CNN.com, but when a user clicks on the link in the email, a pop-up tells the user that they need to install the newest version of Flash to view the list. The pop-up doesn’t allow the option of canceling the [...]
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What Color is Your Hat?
This week in Las Vegas, Internet security professionals from across the country converged for Black Hat USA 2008. The many briefings and trainings that were offered covered a variety of safety issues, such as phishing, malware, data theft, threats to the 2008 Presidential Election, and the DNS flaw we wrote about last week (Dan Kaminsky was in attendance to detail [...]
