Archive for the 'Internet' Category

You hear about scams that lurk online every day. When you see as many articles about successful phishing attempts as this year, you may think that whole online scam thing is exaggerated. Some people even think that phishing has nothing to do with their lifes as no one is interested in their personal information. Both […]

The obvious problem with cyber-crime is that, unlike decent murdering and burglarizing criminals, they are intelligent enough to make a fool of you and your anti-viral software by using insidious methods, which are difficult to recognize. Five of their (albeit outdated) tricks have been reviewed by Erik Larkin of Yahoo.
The first one is the Glieder.H […]

More than a year ago we have heard of Google and StopBadware.org cooperation in tagging malicious websites and warning users of those. As time goes by, several features were added and more companies and organizations joined the project to fulfill one big idea – to reduce malware online.
Google has tagged malicious websites with help of […]

Today it is probably impossible to find a computer user who didn’t ever heard about MP3 music. The MP3 is the most superior format to store thousands of high quality music compositions on your computer’s hard drive or MP3 player. You don’t need to buy those nondurable CDs, sort and change them every five minutes […]

Along with new technologies and Internet we’ve got new threats to our privacy. This statement is about spyware, adware, malware, carding, dialers, etc., that are designed for personal and aggregate information “stealth�?. There are people that profit from personally identifiable information theft. That is why every legal site must provide Privacy Policy that discloses it’s […]

Almost every day we hear about various terror acts in the world. It is so usual to hear word “terrorism�? that we don’t actually pay attention on it. We used to associate word “terrorism�? with various awful events in the world connected with violence, that is terror acts, but how often think we about Internet […]

Modern Internet is a place, where your privacy can always be compromised with the help of simple hacking tools. Although this is a well-known fact, many users simply don’t pay attention to it and find it completely unnecessary to use primitive but useful safety technique. In this article we will dwell upon effects, which can […]

During last decade the Internet has progressed rapidly. Nowadays, almost every man or woman in U.S. has the access to the World Wide Web and use it more or less often. Although it is quite silly to argue about how useful Internet is and how many opportunities it gives us, there is still a dark […]

It is a well-known fact: the Internet is not as harmless and secure place as it was in the end of last century. Nowadays, it’s almost impossible to find an unprotected computer, connected to the World Wide Web.
In our opinion, this is an absolute necessity, because staying unprotected means getting infected with various parasites, like […]