Archive for February 5th, 2010

You’d think that a company trying to raise several hundred million with an initial public offering of stock would tell their affiliates to be on their best behavior for a while.For example, maybe they’d discourage them from hacking governme... »

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today announced that next Tuesday they will hold a news conference to make public details of “a law enforcement sweep cracking down on job and work-at-home fraud fueled by the economic downturn.”The media advisory... »

This is really bad for so many reasons.  It certainly doesn’t help their security.And yes, it’s completely legitimate. Alex Eckelberry »

If you like VIPRE Enterprise, you can vote for it here for the Network Computing Awards 2010. Alex Eckelberry »

Mozilla yesterday posted a notice on its AMO blog (that’s an acronym for their add-on site addons.mozilla.org) that two add-ons have been found infected with Trojan code: Sothink Web Video Downloader v. 4.0 and all versions of Master Filer.Version 4... »

Ok, it’s not my personal favorite color, but this is a new special being run for the Valentines Day weekend by our web team.   Alex »

Funny and too close to the truth:When you finally do get through to an agent, you'll hear something like: "Welcome to DSL technical support, my name is Larry how can I help you today?" You give Larry your account number and begin to explain your situat... »

USA Today is reporting that federal law enforcement agencies have taken more than 170 complaints about Haiti earthquake relief scams. They expect more on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The scams include spam email, fraudulent web... »

Wired magazine has run a story on a phishing scam in Europe, New Zealand and Japan that resulted in the loss of 250,000 carbon credit permits worth $4 million from six companies.The phishing emails spoofed the German Emissions Trading Authority and sai... »

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