RSSCategory: security-privacy

Gizmodo Scareware Fiasco and My Two Cents

November 1, 2009 | By | 4 Replies More
Gizmodo Scareware Fiasco and My Two Cents

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes It seems like everyday, thousands of online users are falling into the hands of crooks either by becoming a victim of online fraud, identity theft, phishing, hacking, and viruses. Recently, cyber criminals had once again proven that nobody on the web is safe particularly internet users. Gizmodo, a popular [...]

Read More

Avoid Web Forgery Using Firefox

October 30, 2009 | By | 7 Replies More
Avoid Web Forgery Using Firefox

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes In addition to the many Internet security related measures I have written in the past, this succeeding post will provide another vital information that would benefit not just Firefox users but also those who were thinking about how your browser can help keep your personally identifiable information safe and [...]

Read More

Beware of Paypal Account Blocked Emails

September 17, 2009 | By | 4 Replies More
Beware of Paypal Account Blocked Emails

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes If you’re a Paypal account holder then you better read on. As a morning routine, I normally start-off the day checking my emails and filing them out after reading them on my folders. As part of the task, I also check the spam folder once in a while because [...]

Read More

A Look into the Future of Viruses and Online Security Threats

August 24, 2009 | By | 1 Reply More
A Look into the Future of Viruses and Online Security Threats

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Most of us may not care so much about online security as long as we have an antivirus software installed on our computers at home but this talk from Computeractive and David Emm from Kaspersky Labs share how the types of threats facing home users are changing overtime. Among [...]

Read More

Conficker Can Damage MP3 Players Not Just USB Drives: AVG Antivirus Software Detects and Removes Conficker From My ZEN Stone MP3 Player

May 9, 2009 | By | 5 Replies More
Conficker Can Damage MP3 Players Not Just USB Drives: AVG Antivirus Software Detects and Removes Conficker From My ZEN Stone MP3 Player

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes When I featured the post “What is Conficker and how to avoid it from infecting your computer?“, if you can recall, I have mentioned the preventive measures to avoid Conficker from infecting your PC and one of those is number 4 which reads, “Conficker can spread itself through removable drives like [...]

Read More