Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
This is Not Music to Our Ears
There are two iPods in my family, and we get our music from Apple’s iTunes Store. I have resisted the call of free music from those Peer to Peer (P2P) networks, partly out of concern for viruses and other malware. Sure enough, security company McAfee recently reported that up to half a million of its [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
A Couple More Online Scams for You
Here’s one more in a seemingly endless supply of IRS phishing scams. You get an email, supposedly from the Internal Revenue Service. It asks you to click on a link to an IRS site so you can fill out a form to get a tax refund. Of course it is a phishing scam, designed to [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Alerts by Syd Tash
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
That DNS Flaw
Hackers have recently released software code that could be used to exploit that serious flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS). The DNS is used to route traffic on the Internet, making sure it gets to the right computer. Using this bug, a hacker could launch a phishing attack that is nearly impossible to detect. [...]
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Install Windows XP SP3 Now
Ever since that Windows XP Service Pack 3 was released by Microsoft a couple of months ago, I have been advising you not to install it just yet, but to wait until all the bugs and problems were worked out. Those problems have indeed been largely resolved, and you might as well go ahead and [...]
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Man Gets Four Years for Piracy and ID Theft
A 23-year-old man in Oregon got himself four years in prison for selling illegal copies of software on eBay. Along the way, he was also convicted of ID theft for using some 40 eBay and PayPal accounts to make the sales. J.J. Mondello reaped more than $400,000 from his unlawful activities, but had to pay [...]
