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Is Your Instant Messaging Secure?
Not all of the instant messaging providers are ensuring complete encryption of the communication exchanges between their users, according to a recent survey conducted by CNET.com, a technology-oriented website. The survey respondents were: AOL AIM, AOL ICQ, Facebook Chat, Google Talk, IBM Lotus Sametime, Micro...

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Diet Pills Bought on Web May Damage Heart
A new study has found that many weight-loss supplements offered for sale online actually contain ingredients that could be harmful to your heart, but the product labels do not warn buyers about them.The study was conducted by researchers at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, and the findings were presented Thursday ...

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Fraudsters Target Tax Rebate Checks
The FBI has issued a warning that scammers are out to intercept the economic stimulus checks from the IRS. According to the FBI, fake e-mails are being sent to individuals informing them that the quickest and easiest way they can get the refund is by direct deposit to their bank account. The message then asks the recipient to follow ...

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Spam Invades Cellphones
It is not only your computer that’s vulnerable to spam. You can expect to get hit through your cellular phone. And when spam invades your cellphone, it’s certainly going to annoy you and it’s likely going to cost you.As more Americans take to using cellphones, their cellphone numbers can now be found in more places — contact forms, order ...

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Social Network Sites Swarming with Spammers
Social networking sites have drawn millions of teens and adults hoping to find real friends in a virtual world. In the process, they have also attracted spammers, hackers and other Internet villains who become bogus friends trying to make real trouble for legitimate users. And, experts warn users, this is only the start ...

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Do Some Websites Abet Suicide?
The Internet has played an increasingly influential role in modern living. This significant influence may extend to suicide attempts — both in the outcome and in influencing people to make the attempt. This startling conclusion comes from a research team whose findings were recently published in the British Medical Journal. ...

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2007 Internet Crimes Cost Nearly $240M
The number Internet crimes in 2007 fell by a hairline 0.3 percent compared to 2006, but the financial losses amounted to $239.09 million for the year, which represented a 21 percent increase in value from the 2006 figure, according to an FBI report released Thursday. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) also said ...

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Is It Possible to Steal Encrypted Data?
Most people use disk encryption tools to prevent someone who may have physical possession of their computer from gaining access to their data without their personal password or key. These tools are supposed to be very effective, and people commonly assume that with the tools, their data are protected even when their computers are...

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CIA Reveals Hacker Attacks on Utilities
The CIA’s top cybersecurity analyst made a rare public disclosure at a trade conference Wednesday, saying cyber attackers have breached the computer systems of foreign utility companies. The information was disclosed to participants at the Process Control Security Summit in New Orleans. The hackers demonstrated the ability to cause...

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Don’t be too quick to open that E-mail Attachment!
There is one thing we all need to be aware of in regard to computer safety: the most treacherous schemes are spread through e-mail message attachments. These programs include Viruses, Trojans and Worms. How are they spread this way? The most commonly used method is through e-mails sent with a file attachment that carries a ...

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Data Breaches Soared in 2007
Breaches of databases, resulting in the loss or theft of personal information reached record heights in 2007. Worse, experts believe the trend is not going to reverse anytime soon. One non-profit group estimates that 79 million records were compromised in the U.S. only through Dec. 18, compared to about 20 million records in all of 2006...

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Web Stalkers using Cookies that are no Treats!
As more and more people of the world are shopping and surfing online, the need to increase our awareness of the potential security threats involved in gaining access to our personal information is critical. A computer cookie refers to the name of files that a web page we visit leaves on the hard drive of a personal computer. ...

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Cyperstalking: Cyber Stalkers and your Children
They stalk your children in your home, they harass them, yet no amount of locks on the doors or alarm system zones will protect them from this; cyperstalking. Cyperstalking is a word that didn’t exist 10 years ago. It does today and it is a topic that every parent must address, technology wise as well as with their children. ...

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Tips for Wi-Fi Safety
Wi-Fi hotspots can now be found all over, at cafes, convention centers, airports, hotels and other public places. This makes using your laptop very convenient, but it also exposes you to all kinds of risks. The chief security officer of a firm that specializes in wireless security says that hotspots are ideal spots for the bad guys. The most ...

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Spams Sent Via YouTube
A YouTube feature meant to help people share videos has become a tool for spammers to send their junk mail. The spam attack is based largely in the U.S., said security experts. The spammers go to the “Invite Your Friends” feature in YouTube and put spam messages in that portion of the form where the sender can include a personal ...

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Power Plants Vulnerable to Cyber Attack
Experts in computers have long aired their concerns about the vulnerability of key infrastructure and utilities to cyber attacks. In dramatic fashion, researchers demonstrated just how accurate these warnings are. They set up an experimental cyber attack on a Department of Energy facility in Idaho, and successfully caused a ...

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Facebook Safety Claims Investigated
Facebook, the second biggest online social networking site, is facing investigation by the New York state attorney general on allegations that it misleads users by promoting its website as a place where young people can network and stay safe from adult sexual predators. The attorney general’s office issued a subpoena Monday, ...

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Security Tips On P2P File Sharing
Although only one man has so far been indicted for identity theft and fraud using peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, experts believe the use of P2P for these criminal purposes is an emerging class of crime that has potential for becoming more widespread. The CEO of a computer security firm said that consumers often do not know ...

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Cyber Criminal Using File Sharing Programs Indicted
In the first case in the US that involved peer-to-peer file sharing programs, a Seattle resident was indicted by a federal grand jury for mail fraud, two counts of aggravated identity theft and accessing a protected computer without authorization to perpetrate further fraud. The indictment alleged ...

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Personal Data More At Risk Today
You must have heard about all the security measures that have been put up to safeguard electronic data. Contrary to what you may have expected, your personal data is less safe in 2007 than it was in 2005. A nonprofit organization for consumer rights said that security breaches since the beginning of 2005 have resulted in the theft ...

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Workplace Cyber - Bully Attacks Increasing
You’re enjoying some quality time with your family on a Saturday afternoon when your company cell phone gives the tell-tale beep that you’ve got a text message. Laughing, you brush off the feigned tackle of your six year-old son and look down at the screen and your mood is instantly ruined. The numbing words on the screen silently scream ...

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Internet Cheats Gamble on Big Business
\"Cause that’s where the money is.\" The now-infamous answer to the question purportedly posed to 1930s bank robber Willy Sutton is now the reason so many thieves and would-be thieves are beginning to turn to American business. Their fraudulent acts cost all of us – in the form of higher prices – and the frauds are getting increasingly ...

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Safe Surfing
\"Mom, I’m going to Julie’s house!\" your thirteen-year-old daughter Amanda shouts as she runs out the front door. She and Julie had been close friends since preschool, so you give your customary reply, \"Okay, be back by dinner!\" and return to your duties as a mother of three. Dinner comes and goes with no sign of Amanda. You call Julie's ...

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Keep Your Computer Data Safe
The experts claim there are two types of hard drives. One is a hard drive that has failed. The other is a hard drive that is about to fail.
How many times have you had to start over with your hard drive – putting all that important information back into the computer by hand if your hard drive did not lose the information entirely by failing? Well, there is something you can do to combat losing the information on your computer hard drive.

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