Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 9, 2010
Security researchers recently discovered that more than 40% of the world’s spam is being churned out by just one culprit. The culprit is called the Rustock botnet, and may consist of millions of compromised computers, all press-ganged together to churn out an estimated 46 billion spam emails every single day. What’s more troubling, most of [...]
Posted by: Matt Hines in: ● June 28, 2010
How well is your antivirus software (AV) working today? Hopefully better than mine. Of course, I didn’t pay anything for mine, maybe that’s the problem; maybe not. Either way as I first sat down to write this blog on my work-issued (and far more heavily protected) laptop, my home PC – a nice fresh six-month [...]
Posted by: Anne Wallace in: ● May 17, 2010
This is National Police Week, an opportunity to acknowledge the sacrifice law enforcement officers and their families make on our behalf. The financial services companies that belong to ITAC, the Identity Theft Assistance Center, are especially grateful. We know it’s a difficult and dangerous job. Our members work with law enforcement everyday to keep you [...]
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● May 10, 2010
Teenage hacking is nothing new. Jonathan James was the first juvenile sent to prison for hacking, and was just 16 years old when he was sentenced to six months in prison in 2000 after he hacked into the computers of NASA’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency. In that same year, a 15-year-old Canadian hacker using the [...]
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● April 8, 2010
Administrators’ Note: With the Income Tax deadline closing in and today being “Tax Tip Thursday” we asked Neal O’Farrell to return to his earlier posting concerning Tax Scams. Enjoy this revamped edition of “The Taxman Cometh (and Identity Thieves are not far behind)” complete with our own tips in staying safe before and after the [...]