Email pretending to be a scam warning from Western Union is itself a scam to trick Irish computer users into giving up their usernames and passwords Many instances of a new email scam with a title “- Your account can be accessed from an unauthorized computer –“ have been spotted in the last few days. … More Fake Western Union email tricking Irish computer users
It was back in the 1990s when someone told me that operating systems like Windows NT were getting so safe that AV would soon be out of business. And I hear on a regular basis that AV is so ineffective it’s not worth having. Because I get some of my income from the anti-virus industry, … More Security professionals DO use anti-virus
Introduction Mobile World Congress 2012 is almost upon us, and one of the most hotly-anticipated topics is the next generation of Microsoft’s smartphone operating system Windows Phone 8, which has been kept under wraps far more tightly than its PC counterpart, Windows 8. While Microsoft was an early adopter in the creation of smartphones with … More Windows Phone 8: Security Heaven or Hell?
I got contacted by Alltid Nyheter, from Swedish public broadcasting radio, regarding a thread on Flashback.org, Sweden’s largest web forum. User info of well over a million registered users was openly accessible on the chat site of YouPorn until the server was taken down yesterday. The exposed information contains e-mail addresses and passwords. This information … More Porn site coders expose user info of millions
Computer security is not created, nor is it improved, by calling people stupid. That’s the conclusion I have arrived at after more than two decades in computer security and auditing. To put it another way, we should stop dropping the “S” bomb, especially when it comes to people who don’t know any better. Consider the … More Security awareness and the abuse of “stupid”
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