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ID Theft - How to Avoid Identity Theft
2008-07-07 20:29:47
By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - It’s fairly easy to protect yourself against identity theft when you’re online, since all you have to do is keep your softwares patched and up to date, install a good antivirus and anti spyware program, and to never visit untrustworthy sites as well as click links on untrustworthy emails. [...]...
 
Computer Spying to Catch a Cheating Spouse
2008-07-06 22:42:06
By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - A lot of relationships, particularly those with men or women who have weak bonds with each other, tend to get ruined or at least marred with discrete online affairs. If you have glaring suspicions about the online habits of your partner, you may want to try spouse computer spying [...]...
 
How to Remove? Spyware Quake Removal Step
2008-07-03 21:39:41
By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - SpywareQuake is part of a new breed of adware/scam hybrids that act as trojans and infect systems via email spam or website scripts. Once infected, SpywareQuake bombs the user of the computer with fake security notification pop-ups, telling them that their computer is infected. Once the pop up is [...]...
 
NebuAd, The Reincarnation of Gator Adware?
2008-06-30 20:17:27
By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - It would seem that NebuAd, the behavioral targeted advertising protocol used by some Internet Service Providers, is basically like a version of Gator that works at the ISP level. For those of you too young to remember, Gator is one of the frontrunners of spyware/adware distribution a few years ago. [...]...
 
Zango Lays Off A Third Of Current Workforce
2008-06-30 03:01:07
By Spyware News - According to a recent press release by Zango, the famous adware company has recently terminated the employment of 68 out of the 200 plus people that comprise its total workforce. The lay offs were done as a means to streamline and narrow the company’s goals and focus, hot on the heels [...]...
 
High School Hackers Use Trojan Program To Change Their Grades
2008-06-29 03:03:43
By Spyware News www.spywarenews.org - A couple of teens from Tesoro School">High School in Orange County, California, are being charged with multiple felony charges after being caught of hacking into their school’s computer network in order to infect it with spyware designed to monitor and change their grades. The teachers at Tesoro High School started to [...]...
 
FTC Wants Spyware Distributors Pays
2008-06-15 03:13:28
The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that the power to invoke civil penalties on spyware distributors would aid in deterrence. Eileen Harrington, deputy director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said enforcement options, such as seeking consumer redress or making the operators give up their ill-gotten gains, [...]...
 
Internet Explorer vs Opera vs Mozilla Firefox
2008-06-10 21:45:51
When you want to surf the net, you click on the blue ‘e’ on you desktop. That’s all there is to it. Why should you have to choose a browser? And is there a choice at all? Isn’t the word ‘browser’ synonymous with ‘InternetExplorer’? With the recent spate of browser-related security incidents all over the world, [...]...
 
TypePad Open Source AntiSpam for Blog
2008-05-30 04:34:12
Six Apart is launching a new free Source">open source product into beta called TypePad AntiSpam. While the product is new, the technology behind it has been used by Six Apart since May 2007 on millions of hosted TypePad blogs. What’s TypePad AntiSpam? A free, open source system powered by TypePad for blocking comment spam on any site, [...]...
 
Wi-Fi Hotspots Vulnerable to Computer Hackers
2008-05-30 04:15:19
The FBI recently issued an alert warning that wireless Internet networks, often called Wi-Fi hotspots, are more vulnerable to hackers than most users probably realize. Often the security of the free public networks is low and this setting make it very easy for a hacker working from anywhere around the world to use computer codes to [...]...
 
Protect Your Online Privacy - Useful Tips
2008-05-21 21:55:27
Tips and guides to protect your online privacy when you are surfing the net - When you venture online, the markers of your identity shrink greatly, and you are known only by your digital, electronic signatures. Any one who can mimic these can claim to be you, and wreak havoc on your financial affairs. That [...]...
 
PayPal Plans to Ban Unsafe Web Browsers
2008-05-18 18:56:03
PayPal announced plans to ban older and unsafe Browsers">Web browsers in an effort to provide anti-phishing protection with the use of EV SSL certificates. PayPal, the world’s largest online payment service, announced on Thursday that it is working on a plan to block users from making transactions from unsafe Web browsers. PayPal released a white paper that [...]...
 
Spyware Blocker - How to Combat Spyware
2008-05-18 05:58:10
One thing is certain. You have to fight spyware, there is no alternative. You cannot leave the issue aside, you cannot say that, “let it stay the way it is.” I mean, you can always say that if you like, but the risk might be a bit too high. You live the issue as a [...]...
 
MySpace Sexual Assault Lawsuit Dismissed
2008-05-17 01:46:58
A federal appeals court has ruled that MySpace.com is immune from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site. The Texas girl’s family had sued MySpace and its parent company, News Corp., claiming that MySpace didn’t protect young users from sexual predators. Girl’s [...]...
 
Cyberstalking - How to Stay out of Danger
2008-05-15 22:00:07
Cyberstalking has recently made its place among the most notorious and destructive crimes that involve the use of the internet. And not unlike real life stalking, it is also perhaps the most terrifying. Cyberstalking occurs when a person is able to gain personal information about you through the internet and online sources, and then uses that [...]...
 
MySpace Wins $230 Million from Spam King Sanford Wallace
2008-05-14 23:08:57
Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports. MySpace decided to sue when it discovered the duo had lured MySpace users [...]...
 
 
 
 
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