Archive for: November, 2011
Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 14/11/2011 | 2296 views
Information technologies have evolved to a level at which the developers, programmers, and security specialists all know what they’re doing, and are able to produce products and services that work and are reasonably secure. Of course, there’s always room for improvement.
Despite the amount of criminal hacking that goes on, users who ef...
Tags: Security, Risk & regulation
Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 04/11/2011 | 1684 views | 2 comments
Five or ten years ago, it was relatively easy for scammers to trick people into opening email attachments that would launch malicious programs on victims’ PCs. Nowadays, most email providers won’t permit .exe attachments, so viruses may be saved as compressed files, or hidden behind links that appear to lead to PDFs or word documents.
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Tags: Security, Risk & regulation
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