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Now, a new form of vigilante justice is occurring: scammers are illegally scamming, blackmailing and extorting other scammers. Who doesn’t love vigilante justice? Some readers may remember Charles Br
The security community has bombarded the media with fascinating claims of gloom and doom. (I’m guilty of it, too.) The hype hasn’t entirely met the hyperbole. There have been no major catastrophic is
Conficker has updated to what is believed to be keylogging software. Conficker's botnet, which includes anywhere from 3 to 15 million PCs, has a peer to peer (P2P) feature that allows each PC on th
Both Microsoft Certified Professional and Computerworld report on a variation of Conficker known as “Neeris.” Neeris is a 4 year old virus that has resurfaced and is now behaving like a Conficker w
A recent study conducted by the Unisys Corporation shows that identity theft as it pertains to credit card fraud is Americans’ number one concern. When people ask me, “How do I protect myself from
But we should act as it is and put systems in place to prepare. The boy did not cry wolf. Cyber crime profits are running into the trillions Weekly, and often daily, I remind readers of how potentiall...
Conficker’s rise and fall and the passing activity of the worm on April 1st has allowed researchers and anti-virus companies to better understand the virus and its impact. While April Fools was supp
With the world watching Conficker has reached out but has not delivered any new malware. Computer World reports “We have observed that Conficker is reaching out, but so far none of the servers they a...
Credit card details of 19,000 Brits have been found on a cached Google page, where they had been accidentally published by fraudsters. Silly criminal hackers need to tighten up their data security
60 minutes reports on everything we have discussed in these posts. Main stream media has recognized the Internet has a cancerous virus and is infected. Criminal hackers are creating viruses infectin
Occasionally we witness the underground coming above ground to face the music. Here what could be considered a brilliant hacker who even owned and operated a security company, is enemy number one. At ...
Security professionals’ globally are gearing up to be fooled or fool criminal hackers on April 1st. So far this year it is estimated that somewhere between 3 and 12 million computers have been comprom...