Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that malware authors are already using Christmas themes this year as a social engineering tactic, in an effort to gain control over compromised machines. This campaign uses email messages in the form of e-greetings, leading to supposed animated postcards. These actually lead to a Trojan backdoor that has [...]
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I’d like to give thanks to all of you who have honored me by following my tips here on my blog. Today’s entry will be a little different…It’s all about Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Trivia
Here are some interesting facts about Thanksgiving that each of us should know about:
The first Thanksgiving [...]
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From Trend Micro TrendSetter
Every year we see staggering new statistics about how many people are buying gifts online instead of braving traffic, long lines, and parking nightmares at brick-and-mortar stores. During the holidays, many online retailers will also offer breaks on shipping costs—so the advantages of less physical hassle, no sales tax, and potentially free [...]
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The following article is reprinted from PCWorld.com
Telemarketing is especially annoying when it reaches your mobile phone, costing you money to hear a sales pitch. Be cautious in giving your mobile number to companies, and especially be aware of opting in or out of a company sharing or selling that information.
If you do give out a [...]
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Apple has recalled the ultracompact USB adapters sold with its 3G iPhones, warning that the metal prongs could break off and put owners at risk of electric shock. Apple has urged owners to recharge the phone by connecting it to a computer until they can trade in the faulty charger for a new one. They [...]
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From the OCRegister Gadgetress
If you’re about to dump your old iPod, cell phone or other electronic device anyway, you might as well get some money for it, right?
RadioShack now offers an electronics trade-in program, which swaps store gift cards for your old e-junk. A lot of this stuff we shouldn’t be dumping into the [...]
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As part of your online security you need to have a software firewall. I recommended a couple in an earlier post about Internet Security. First, what exactly is a firewall? Firewalls provide protection against outside attackers by shielding your computer or network from malicious or unnecessary Internet traffic. In a nutshell, a firewall examines the [...]
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Microsoft introduced the concept of Patch Tuesday a few years ago. The idea is that security patches are accumulated over a period of one month, and then dispatched all at once on the second Tuesday of the month. Windows Update is a service that provides updates for the operating system and its installed components. Microsoft [...]
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Whether you’re shipping a holiday gift or an item you’ve sold on eBay, these tips and sites can help keep costs down. – JR Raphael
Oct 16, 2008 5:50 pm
We’ve all been there: You find the perfect present, wrap it up, and take it to the post office–only to discover that the shipping costs as much [...]
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