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Article | 17/02/2009 9 Dirty Tricks: Social Engineers' Favourite Pick-Up Lines
What the average guy might call a con is known in the security world as social engineering. Social engineering is the criminal art of scamming a perso...
Article | 29/01/2009 12 tips for managing your information footprint
When it comes to managing personal information online, most people are their own worst enemies. Many of us fail to adequately protect our personal dat...
Article | 28/01/2009 How to safeguard your online security
Social networks are fun to use, helpful for job hunting, and great for keeping in touch with friends, business contacts, and relatives. The downside: ...
Article | 28/01/2009 How to lock down the data in your apps
Your everyday office applications store more hidden information in the documents you create and work on than you may be aware of. Here's how to make s...
Article | 28/01/2009 How to stop operating-system attacks
Your PC's operating system is under constant threat of invasion, whether the attacker's aim is to spread malicious malware or to convince you to buy p...
Article | 28/01/2009 What the Web knows about you
She had me at hello ... or just about. Our conversation had barely started when privacy activist Betty Ostergren interrupted me to say that she had fo...
Article | 15/01/2009 Symantec gets good vibes from virtualized browser
Security vendor Symantec is using new virtual machine technology to protect Web surfers from online attack.
Article | 8/01/2009 10 new year's resolutions for your business
We know: You mean to do all kinds of things to keep your IT infrastructure in peak condition, but when the office gets busy, things fall through the c...
Article | 5/01/2009 10 breakthroughs in IT security
Big ideas that altered the course of information security
Article | 11/12/2008 Symantec: Online underground economy is booming
An online underground economy has recently matured into an efficient, global marketplace to trade stolen goods and offer fraud-related services.
Article | 2/12/2008 McColo takedown: Internet self policing or vigilantism
Few tears were shed when McColo, a US-based company that allegedly hosted systems for prolific purveyors of spam, malware and child pornography, was s...
Article | 28/11/2008 Spam is silenced, but where are the feds?
On October 14, the US Federal Trade Commission, with help from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and New Zealand police, announced that it had sh...
Article | 27/11/2008 Seven classic PC symptoms
As a small-business person, you might bemoan the fact you don't have 24/7 IT support like your larger-scale competitors. Don't panic. You can solve ma...
Article | 17/11/2008 A sneaky security problem, ignored by the bad guys
Frank Boldewin had seen a lot of malicious software in his time, but never anything like Rustock.C.
Article | 15/10/2008 Will the real spam king please stand up?
As more and more spammers are arrested, prosecuted, and sued under state and federal antispam statutes, there's one thing you can count on: Someone so...
Article | 7/10/2008 Famous last words about spam
What Gates, McCain and others have said about those pesky, unwanted e-mails.
Article | 7/10/2008 Spammers in the slammer
A compilation of the most notorious convicted spammers
Article | 16/09/2008 20 amazing, amusing and alarming IT facts
A new report warns that the cost from lost productivity at work related to the new NFL season could add up to US$10.5 billion. And there we were, thin...
Article | 16/09/2008 Do ISPs pose a bigger online privacy threat than Google?
The increased monitoring and profiling of Internet users by companies such as Google and its DoubleClick online advertising subsidiary is widely seen ...
Article | 16/09/2008 How to Set Your Facebook Privacy Settings
Facebook, since its mistakes with the Beacon advertising incident, has rolled out one of the most robust security systems for any social network, whic...

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