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| Basic Computer Protection in Just a Few Steps - Part II |  | In the second part of our small tutorial, we’ll take a look at some of the ways to protect your computer and how to evade getting a computer infected with any kind of malware. As oppose to the first part, this article is not about choosing the best security application; instead you may look at it as a list of pieces of advice to follow while surfing the net.
Let’s start with e-mails
The first rule when reading you ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2008, 16:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Business Email Brought to Ordinary Phones by Sprint |  | Together with the release of Samsung Instinct, which announces itself as one of this year's hottest touchscreen handsets from the US market, Sprint also came up with a new Email service, named "Sprint Mobile Email Work". What this new service does is ... [read more >>] | | 20 June 2008, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Updates Windows Live Hotmail |  | Microsoft is rolling out the latest update introduced to Windows Live Hotmail. According to Ellie Powers, program manager, Windows Live Hotmail, users should start notincing new features, bug fixes and performance optimizations in the weeks to come, as the update will be served gra ... [read more >>] | | 12 June 2008, 10:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| ICANN Takes Action against Registrars Who Help Spammers |  | I think there is not one Internet user out there that enjoys having their email inbox stuffed with spam. And as most of the spam victims know, spam mail generally redirects you to a certain website, which ultimately tries to trick you into giving away your personal information or simply wants to take your money. Apparently, most of those spam sites are tied to a handful of registrars. To be more exact, three quarters of all Web sites adver ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 03:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Web Hosting Provider: Please Use Gmail! |  | Dreamhost, a large web hosting provider based in Los Angeles, said in a blog post that users should really give Gmail a try because Google simply "does do a great job at email." Moreover, "in a way we are taking some steps to stop providing email," Dreamhost explained in the blog entry. T ... [read more >>] | | 27 May 2008, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| More Celebrity Pictures Spread by Mail |  | Celebrities have always been some of the most popular subjects on the web and spammers know it. That's why an important percentage of their attacks actually rely on celebrities, lots of messages promising hot pictures with Paris Hilton, Angelina Jolie and many other stars. However, the purpose of these emails is actually to drop malware on readers' computers and steal sensitive data or infect their systems. A similar at ... [read more >>] | | 26 May 2008, 06:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Legitimate Bank Email Used in Phishing Scam |  | Today's phishers have pretty advanced techniques and today's report comes to support this statement. According to Port Clinton News Herald, a phisher used an email account belonging to First National Bank of Bellevue in order to send phishing emails to its customers. As usual, the ma ... [read more >>] | | 26 May 2008, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fake US Tax Court Email Drops Keyloggers |  | A new spear phishing scam is currently in progress as lots of companies have received fake emails apparently sent by the US Tax Court that ask recipients to click on a link included in the message body. Security company McAfee has also received an email of this kind. According to Kevin McGhee, such attacks are usually well-informed because they contain the name of the companies as well as other details which could trick readers i ... [read more >>] | | 23 May 2008, 02:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo Blocks Email for BT Customers |  | Several customers of BT, one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services, were faced with an email meltdown after a Yahoo security update. The security update glitch has affected the BT Yahoo customers who use their own domain names to send email. The exact number of users hasn't been disclosed by the communications company, but it’s probable to be in the number of thousands.
Customers w ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2008, 07:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 'Email? What's That?', One in Five Americans Says |  | Although for some of you this may sound pretty incredible, one in five US households never sent an email, the National Technology Scan report, compiled by Park Associated, reveals. Moreover, no less than 20 million households don't have an Internet connection, which means that approximately 18 percent of the total number of households can't access the web at home.
However, according to data provided by Parks Associat ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2008, 10:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Sends Private Emails to Wrong Recipients |  | The Mountain View-based company has once again sent private emails to the wrong people, all of them registered users of AdSense, Google's advertising platform. According to a thread on the WebmasterWorld forum, a few AdSense users have received an email message titled "Important Account Information ... [read more >>] | | 13 May 2008, 09:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Incredibly Cheap Gasoline via Spam |  | There are a lot of types of email spam, most of them relying on medicines, watches or all kinds of pills. However, some new unsolicited messages appeared a few days ago and, according to Jeremy Gilliat of McAfee Avert Labs Blog, they attempt to offer a product that helps victims save money on gas. Since the gas prices have exploded in the recent period, some readers may be really attracted by such an email and this is exactly wha ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 09:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Security Flaw Can Easily Turn Gmail into Your Worst Nightmare |  | Gmail, Google's very popular email technology, which is for many users their main email service, can easily turn into your worst nightmare as a security glitch could allow an attacker to use the service as the perfect spamming bot. According to security research team INSERT, the security glitch "is related to the risk of abusing the email forwarding option in Gmail accounts." In case an attacker manages to take adv ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google AdWords Scam Phishers Tracked Down |  | We reported about this Google AdWords phishing scam a long time ago, but it seems like the attackers are still struggling to find new victims since the message still reaches users' inboxes. However, new information was revealed yesterday as Loucif Kharouni of Trend Micro got one of these emails asking for the AdWords login credentials. What's interesting is that according to the threat analyst, the ones behind the attac ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Phishers Add New Techniques to Their Arsenal |  | How does a phishing scam work? The attacker, a.k.a. the phisher, creates a copy of a legitimate website and sends emails to certain victims asking them to visit the page. In comparison with the genuine website, the fake one actually requires private information such as credit card details or financial data that would allow phishers to steal money. However, according to recent reports, this is only an old phishing scam as today� ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PS3s and GTA IVs Offered to Desperate Gamers |  | Grand Theft Auto IV, one of the most expected PS3 and Xbox 360 games ever launched, makes a lot of victims among addicted gamers, and not only due to the fact that the stores' stocks got depleted soon after the game became available. According to ClearMyMail, wise spammers around the world attempt to speculate this moment and try to lure GTA IV desperate fans in all kinds of scams and attacks which may compromise their compu ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 09:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Teens Think “Instant Messaging” Doesn't Mean “Writing” |  | A study conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project revealed that most teens don't consider the electronic texts they enter on computers to be the same as the formal writing they do for schools and universities. According to the findings, no less than 85 percent of the teenagers with ages between 12 and 17 type electronic texts every once in a while, no matter if we're talking about emails, instant messaging o ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Beijing Olympics Hackers Rely on Microsoft Office Vulnerabilities |  | It's well known the fact that the upcoming Beijing Olympics will be one of the busiest times of the year for hackers because most of them will launch attacks related to the event in order to find new victims. In fact, it seems like the attacks have already been launched as NetworkWorld ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Kia Involved in Online Lottery Scam |  | A new online lottery scam has been spotted on the web but, this time, the one affected is not Google or Yahoo, as in the previous cases, but Kia, the famous car producer. According to MotorTrader, an email message claiming to be sent by Kia informs readers that they have won a Kia and a 750,000 pounds ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 06:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| After MasterCard, Visa Gets Scammed Too |  | Following last week's report that MasterCard owners had been targeted by a phishing scheme attempting to steal their private financial details, it was only a matter of time until Visa's consumers joined the club. Security company Sophos today reports that a new phishing scam was detected, this time targeting Visa owners. Similar to other attacks in the past, the malicious email arriving in the Visa users' inboxes a ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 09:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Singapore Telecommunications Has Just Spammed My Gmail |  | We've seen it in the past and we see it again: a spam email which informs me that I have won the grand prize, which by the way means no less than 1 million pounds, at the UK National Lottery arrived in my Gmail inbox although it should be redirected in the spam folder. However, Gmail's mistake may be excusable since the email seems to be sent from a legitimate email address. But what's really interesting is that th ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 02:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Email Actually Means 92.3 Percent Spam |  | Security company Sophos has just published a report concerning the spam stats during the first quarter of 2008, revealing that the United States are again responsible for the most unsolicited messages sent on the web. According to figures provided by Sophos, US-based spammers, no matter if we� ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 05:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sued? Antivirus Update Required! |  | A new and pretty dangerous phishing attack was launched a few days ago, targeting the CEOs of online companies. According to Cyveillance's official blog, the CEO of the company, Panos Anastassiadis, received a suspicious email, apparently a subpoena, which informed him that he had been sued, the message including a link supposed to allow the receiver to download court documents.
What's interesting is that, in compar ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 05:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fake Japanese Government Email Drops Backdoor |  | Symantec has just discovered a new spoofed email circulating in Japan after multiple local companies confirmed the fact that they had received emails apparently sent by a Japanese government agency. According to the security company, the email informs the receivers that the government has made some organizational changes and, in order to view them, they have to download and open two attached file. The files, 0414.xls and 0414.exe ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Spammers Need Human Workforce to Solve CAPTCHAs |  | Since email spamming means sending messages to millions of users at a time, spammers need lots of email accounts in order to reach this goal. Because creating email accounts manually would be like swimming from UK to the US, they have created special bots supposed to register new usernames automatically. However, companies around the world have always struggled to block this attempt and implemented more and more powerful CAPTCHAs ... [read more >>] | | 10 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gmail Introduces New Function to Send Emails to the Past |  | We all know that Gmail is one of the most popular email services on the web and the reasons are more than obvious: it's freeware for everyone and provides quite advanced functions for such a product. However, the Mountain View company has ever wanted more than that and today rolled out another ability which may bring the mail service back in the spotlight. Codenamed Custom Time, the new function is supposed to let you to mod ... [read more >>] | | 01 April 2008, 05:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Tell on Crooks by Email |  | Fighting crime is a lot easier to do when police officers don’t have to go around knocking on every door until they find something of help. Those interested in lending the helping hand can now send video footage or imagery of crimes being committed that they have chanced upon directly by email, news.com.au reports. The evidence obtained this way will be admitted for prosecuting serious crimes from bashings, sexual assault and ter ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 11:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| WGA Strike Prompts Apple to Issue Refunds |  | Some television shows, music videos and short films available via iTunes never aired due to the Writers Guild of America Strike, which most people should be familiar with. As a result, ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2008, 10:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Teachers – Victims of Cyberbullies |  | The issue of cyber bullying has been around ever since the earliest days of the Internet, but it got exponentially more visible as the cases of such acts rose in numbers by the same ratio. Text messages, offensive emails and videos being posted on YouTube, everything was turned into a means of threatening and oppressing those that could not defend themselves.
A survey conducted by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2008, 09:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sick Email Lottery Scam |  | Scams will be around for years to come, if not to the end of time. Seemingly natural, some people think they are smarter than others and try to take advantage of their gullibility. Truth be told, they often are, but that doesn’t give them the right to benefit from their victims’ lack of experience in Internet affairs.
The latest scam found by security firm Sophos takes advantage of the good name aid agency Oxfam has built thro ... [read more >>] | | 05 March 2008, 15:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Spammers Find Way to Beat Filters |  | The usual spam message is easy to recognize for those with the minimum level of know-about, and there aren’t many Internet users nowadays that lack any interest in the matter. The methods and techniques used by cyber criminals must evolve continuously because the security companies are hot on their tracks in finding and unmasking the dangerous content. Just a couple of days ago, I wrote about the ... [read more >>] | | 29 February 2008, 17:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| “I’ve Been Hired to Kill You! I'll Let You Live If You Pay Up!” |  | I’m certain that each and everybody in the online community has received at one point an email from the grieving widow of some general from an African country that only needed some bank information to be able to transfer the huge sum of money left to her but couldn’t collect. It usually says that for the services of providing a bank account the pay is somewhere between $1 and $3.5 million.
The latest scheme discovered by the Fairfax and ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 16:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Another Phishing Scam Unveiled by McAfee |  | The Internet really needs a watchdog because the amount of malware heading our way, and by that I mean the inexperienced public, there's no way we could fend all of the attacks on our own, with just some anti-virus, be it upgraded on a regular basis. McAfee and the other security software vendors are going that extra mile and are warning users of most, if not all, of the dangers that lurk in the Internet shadows.
Phishing is one o ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 2 Years Sentence for Linkin Park Cyber Stalker |  | Stalking isn't one of the things to be most proud of, but it sure requires insistence and that's generally a positive trait. That was an attempt to find something good in a bad situation, but there's really no excuse if you shadow somebody by all means available. Love can be pretty extreme in itself, people have been known to do the most stupid things in its name.
Working for the government has its perks, like access to s ... [read more >>] | | 25 February 2008, 14:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Scheme – Voice Phishing |  | Phishing is one of the most certain means of acquiring some personal information period. Either the victim doesn’t know he/she is visiting a fake secure site or is providing the information via email to somebody asking for it while posing as an official doesn’t really matter to the phishers. All that matters is to get the job done, so they have stepped up their game and went ahead to attempt pulling off the same scheme via voice.
Sophos ... [read more >>] | | 21 February 2008, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| FBI Monitored a Network Worth of Email Instead of Just One |  | Following the procedure (probably), the Federal Bureau of Investigation went to a secret intelligence court judge and got approval for surveying an email address of a suspect in an investigation going on at the time. Again according to protocol they went with the court decision to the Internet Service Provider, that served as host for the respective address, and access was granted. To all available, not just the one.
Some might call it ... [read more >>] | | 19 February 2008, 13:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gmail Login Error 502 |  | Depending on email for a big part of one’s life can sometimes come and bite one in the arse. Gmail users experienced this first hand over the past weekend, when many turned to Google Groups and reported that they could not sign into their mail accounts and that they were greeted with a ‘friendly’ 502 error when attempting it.
Google started addressing the issue as soon as they found out about it, but it was only this morning w ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 08:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| From Hackers with Love |  | Never trust email, even if they tell you what you’d want to hear. Taking advantage of human ego, which apparently has everybody running circles around it, hackers and cyber criminals have found a new way to convince unsuspecting victims to open and download their infected messages.
In case you see an email telling you that you have a secret admirer, don’t light up and hurry to open it, you’re not 16 any more and the person who ... [read more >>] | | 13 February 2008, 12:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Live Hotmail Cracked |  | Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail has been cracked. Like other Internet powerhouses such as Yahoo and Google, Microsoft too is offering a free web-based email service. Windows Live Hotmail, referred to as Windows Live Mail during the development stage, is designed as the successor of the Microsoft MSN Hotmail service. First introduced in November 2005, Windows Live Hotmail, rebranded under the Hotmail label in early 2007, was finalized ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 06:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Email Service from Microsoft |  | Before you go ahead and attempt to forget your Windows Live Hotmail user account and password, you should know that the new email service, courtesy of Microsoft and Cbeyond, is addressed exclusively at small and medium-sized businesses. Moreover, the new email service introduced at the Mobile World Congress 2008 is limited to the U.S., planned to debut in Atlanta, and then to move on to Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angel ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Boss Tells Staff to 'Hang in There' |  | We can all understand Jobs' recent position revealed in a "private communication" in which Apple's CEO acknowledges "the beating his company’s shares have taken during this time of economic ... [read more >>] | | 29 January 2008, 05:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Warning! Vishing Attacks in Progress! |  | People's money and their bank accounts represent the most important target for numerous hackers/attackers out there, so most attempts aim to steal these sensitive details. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported a few days ago that a new type of attack called "vishing" continues to rise and to threaten more and more people. Vishing is somehow similar with phishing because they both aim to steal financial ... [read more >>] | | 22 January 2008, 15:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| iHateSpam Hates Spam A Lot More Than Anytime Before |  | Spam is annoying, dangerous and must be blocked as soon as it is spotted. This is obvious and we all admit it. No matter what email client we're using, no matter what email provider we have, no matter how paranoid we are, the unsolicited messages manage to reach our inboxes and infiltrate among other legitimate content. That's why we need a powerful security solution that would be able to block unwanted emails and keep ... [read more >>] | | 17 January 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Anyone Looking for Backdoors? |  | In case you're one of those who analyzed the new year and observed that 2008 didn't bring us any backdoor, I got one for your: BKDR_ASPROX.B is that kind of infection affecting most Windows versions, including 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003. But, what's worse is that it has a high damage potential, meaning that it can seriously damage the data stored on your computer. And you'll understand that in the next few lin ... [read more >>] | | 14 January 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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