Pete Cashmore from Mashable is reporting that some Facebook users are receiving messages with links to goldbase.be and other .be websites with the subject line of “Look at This”. DO NOT click the links to any of these sites: goldbase.be greenbuddy.be silvertag.be picoband.be According to Mashable, if you receive any of these Facebook messages you [...]
There is a new phishing scam is hitting Facebook users today. Facebook users receive a message from a friend that directs them to a site with an official looking Facebook login. When users login, the site captures the email and password, uploads malware to the computer, and then sends a similar message to all of [...]
Please be careful with the quizzes on Facebook. When you sign up for them you are agreeing to share your personal information. Allowing [Quiz Name] access will let it pull your profile information, photos, your friends’ info, and other content that it requires to work. By proceeding, you are allowing [Quiz Name] to access your [...]
You and your family use the internet for education, entertainment, research, social networking, communication, shopping, and myriad other valuable reasons. When you connect your computer to the internet, it is immediately vulnerable to countless threats (malware) including adware, keystroke loggers, rootkits, spyware, virus, worms, etc. The intent of most of this malware is to gather [...]
by Matt on April 23, 2009
Blue Coat offers K9 Web Protection, a commercial-grade parental control and internet filtering package, free of charge. K9 Web Protection helps parents protect their children online by preventing access to pornography, gambling, violence, and other dangerous content. It also monitors the sites that your children visit. You can find out more information about K9 Web [...]
by Matt on April 18, 2009
You use the internet for many activities such as banking, shopping, and communicating through email, instant messaging and social networking. How can you ensure that your personal information, identity, passwords, banking and credit card numbers are protected from hackers and other malicious users? Your password is the key that opens the door to online banking, [...]
In his closing remarks at the end of the most recent General Conference, President Thomas S. Monson warned us all to avoid the evil uses of the Internet, particularly pornography. “My brothers and sisters, involvement in such will literally destroy the spirit.” Be strong. Be clean. Avoid such degrading and destructive types of content at [...]