by Matt on March 24, 2010
Google added a new feature to Gmail which will detect suspicious activity in your account and notify you when an intruder has attempted to login to your account. If Google detects a possible intrusion, it will display the following warning in your inbox that your account was accessed from a specific location. By clicking on [...]
by Matt on February 22, 2010
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by Matt on February 15, 2010
by Tregaron on February 12, 2010
“A rootkit infection may be the cause of a Windows Blue Screen of Death issue experienced by Windows XP users who applied the latest round of Microsoft patches. It appears that the affected Windows PCs had the rootkit infection prior to deploying the Microsoft patches. Researcher Patrick W. Barnes, investigating the issue, has isolated the [...]
by Matt on January 3, 2010
Kids’ Top 100 Searches of 2009 YouTube, Google, and Facebook top the list Sex and Porn round out the top 5 Kids spend most of their time searching for music related topics (30%), then TV/movie related topics (12%). The most popular celebrity kids searched for was Michael Jackson. Taylor Swift came in second. Team Jacob [...]
by Matt on December 23, 2009
OnlineFamily.Norton surveyed a whole lot of parents and put a great deal of thought into the core features needed to provide a robust communication-based tool that aims to bring you and your family closer together as you work to manage your online lifestyles. Key features of OnlineFamily.Norton include: Personal Profiles Your child is unique. You [...]
by Matt on November 29, 2009
Below is an excellent article from Fox News about cyberscams during the holiday season. Getting a bargain on Cyber Monday seems compelling. But with online shopping comes the risk of cyberscams. According to Consumer Reports, cybercriminals have bilked $8 billion from consumers in the past two years. And as Americans open their wallets and their [...]
by Matt on November 25, 2009
There is a new Facebook worm which will direct you to a link containing pornography. The following are the details of the worm: The hook to the new Facebook worm appears in a friend’s profile as the racy image at left. Click the image, and you are brought to a Web page with the same [...]
by Matt on November 25, 2009
Scareware is a type of malware designed to trick victims into purchasing and downloading useless and potentially dangerous software. Scareware, which generates pop-ups that resemble Windows system messages, usually purports to be antivirus or antispyware software, a firewall application or a registry cleaner. The messages typically say that a large number of problems — such [...]