Archive for the ‘Malware’ Category
Friday, August 21st, 2009
Cases of PCs infected by malware have shot up 600% so far in 2009 according to a report from Panda Security -- a web security firm. Of the eleven million cases the division has analyzed, over seven million has been malware in the form of trojans. If you're not familiar ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
One hundred and thirty million. The number itself just boggles the mind. Try to think of 130,000,000 of anything and you'll get a headache. Now think of that number in regards to debit card information. That's right, 130 million account records -- that's the number that Albert Gonzalez stole... this ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
Part of protecting yourself from identity theft online is creating strong passwords for your multiple online accounts. Many times passwords are simple words, dates or sequential numbers that are used because they're easy to remember. They're also easy to crack.
A good password utilizes numbers, regular characters, upper case characters and ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
1% of all PCs are Infected my ID Theft malware
According to Panda Security, an online virus and malware scanner service, one out of every 100 computers are infected with malware designed to steal your personal information. These malware programs steal information like your bank account login and investment information and ...
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
After Senator Obama won the election this November 4th it seemed that everyone was interested and excited about him being the 44th president of the US. Not only were the majority of American’s excited about the results but people in other countries as well. It seems that cyber criminals thought ...
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