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UK Tax debacle becomes target for phishers

Sunday, September 5, 2010
By paperghost
UK Tax debacle becomes target for phishers

Over the next few months, workers in the UK may be informed they can expect a tidy payout or a demand for money, after it was revealed that up to 6 million people have been paying the wrong amount of tax. As you might expect, scammers have b... »

Parent memory reserve with dynamic memory

Friday, September 3, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
Parent memory reserve with dynamic memory

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/09/03/parent-memory-reserve-with-dynamic-memory.aspx'; Most people I know who have spent a lot of time with Hyper-V have had the experience of accidentally taking too much memory away from the parent partition.  This happens when they start too many virtual machines – and all of a sudden the performance and responsiveness of the... »

So, how did they “credit my favor” with $4.5 M if they didn’t know my name?

Friday, September 3, 2010
By Tom Kelchner
So, how did they “credit my favor” with $4.5 M if they didn’t know my name?

Are grade schoolers writing the spam these days?What does: “revert ASAP” mean?From: From International Commercial Bank of Ghana Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 2:15 PMSubject: Attn: Beneficiary, From International Commercial Ba... »

Clearwater backhoe incident: 09/02

Friday, September 3, 2010
By Tom Kelchner
Clearwater backhoe incident: 09/02

GFI Sunbelt Internet connectivity was lost when a fiber optic line was cut in Clearwater, Fla., near the end of the business day yesterday.Service provider Time Warner said the line was accidentally cut by a construction crew near the GFI Sunbelt headq... »

Zombie game inspires scammers to target your brains

Friday, September 3, 2010
By paperghost
Zombie game inspires scammers to target your brains

Zombies. Whether they’re shuffling Romero types, the wisecracking “send more cops” variety or even the crumbling Fulci efforts it’s important to be prepared (no, I’m not counting the ones that run. Those are stupid). As you can see, I’m re... »

Safe Web Surfing Rule # 1: READ the URL

Thursday, September 2, 2010
By Tom Kelchner
Safe Web Surfing Rule # 1: READ the URL

Safe Web Surfing Rule # 2: See Rule # 1Email and social networking sites might be a global phenomena, but English remains widely used in URLs and elsewhere on the Internet. In the English verbiage in malicious email, URLs and web sites there are words ... »

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