Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Online threats are a real problem when you are trying to protect your identity. Cybercriminals constantly launch attacks that are designed to penetrate your digital defense and steal your personal and financial information.
More than 30,000 URLs are infected every day, and 80 percent of those infected are legitimate sites ...
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Monday, December 5th, 2011
Last week, a warning was issued regarding a Facebook worm that was spreading on the social network, tricking users into believing that they were clicking on a link to an image. Nothing new here, eh? Happens quite frequently.
The bad news in this instance is that the attack appears to still ...
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Remember when it was announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed? The news blew up Twitter – and it was mere hours before hackers began using the news to create scams. Social media sites were jammed with links that promised images of bin Laden – but they only ...
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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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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Identity thieves will do anything to get a hold of your personal information. Thieves will break in and steal or hack into your computer to get it. They will go through your mail and even go through your garbage to get those little bits of information needed to piece together ...
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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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