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The Green Geek gives cyber security advice
May 15, 2012 Leave a Comment
Up, up, and away with malware!
Analysis: Defending yourself from internet crime
May 14, 2012 Leave a Comment
Looking at an FBI cybercrime report
When déjà vu is Flashback on a Mac, you’ve got trouble
April 12, 2012 Leave a Comment
How to remove the pesky trojan
BBB warns consumers about fake email claiming to be from Better Business Bureau
Dec. 7, 2011 2 Comments
MARLBOROUGH — The Better Business Bureau issued an urgent SCAM alert cautioning businesses and consumers about an email that looks like it is from BBB, with the subject line “Complaint from your customers.” This e-mail is fraudulent. BBB warns you to ignore its contents and delete it immediately. If you have already clicked on a [...]
InMotion Hosting servers hacked by TiGER-M@TE — Blast affected
Sept. 25, 2011 26 Comments
The hacker strikes
Cyber criminals are targeting your smartphone
April 27, 2011 Leave a Comment
Expert shows you how to fight the latest identity theft threats
Walgreens alerts users to email list leak
Dec. 10, 2010 Leave a Comment
No prescription or credit card information stolen
Julian Assange denied bail, will be extridicted to Sweden
Dec. 7, 2010 1 Comment
Wikileaks founded arrested in the UK
FBI unravels chilling case of “sextortion”
Nov. 2, 2010 Leave a Comment
Don’t click those unknown Facebook links
Security breach exposes Tufts alumni records
June 8, 2010 Leave a Comment
7,000 records exposed by unknown malware
Searching for “Lost” spoilers could end up ruining your computer
May 20, 2010 Leave a Comment
Don’t click everything you Google
Uh oh, It’s the porn police
March 6, 2010 4 Comments
Utah firm creates USB stick to find porn on any PC
Dangerous celebs to Google?
Sept. 16, 2008 Leave a Comment
Research from security firm McAfee shows that some celebrities are just dangerous to Google and search for around the web because of the litany of fake websites out there that try to infect your computer with viruses and malicious code as you innocently seek out wallpaper and screensavers of your favs. Brad Pitt leads the [...]
McAfee identifies “Downloader-UA.h,” first medium risk malware in three years
May 6, 2008 Leave a Comment
McAfee Avert Labs reported Tuesday the most significant malware outbreak in three years with more than 500,000 detections of a Trojan horse they’re calling “Downloader-UA.h,” which is spreading by masquerading as a media file. “The malicious MP3 music or MPEG video files have appeared on popular file-sharing services such as Limewire and eDonkey,” Avert Labs [...]
The MacGyver crack
Feb. 22, 2008 Leave a Comment
Take a seven dollar can of compressed air from any office supply store. Flip it over, and spray its liquid nitrogen on a computer’s DRAM, or digital random access memory. Reboot the computer, or even extract the DRAM chip and clone it, then run a few relatively simple programs. Nothing that would defeat an intermediate [...]
