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Federal agencies are facing emerging cybersecurity threats that are the result of increasingly sophisticated methods of attack and the blending of once distinct types of attack into more complex and damaging forms. Examples of these threats include spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail), phishing (fraudulent messages to obtain personal or sensitive data), and spyware (software that monitors [...]
I’m afraid there’s not enough information for me to say what happened to your e-mail and, therefore, whether it is recoverable. It’s certainly possible that even if the drive has been reformatted much of the data can be recovered. But you’d have to take the drive to a data recovery service to do the job. [...]
A comprehensive spyware bill recently cleared the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection (it flows trippingly from the tongue, no?) and is busy stirring up controversy. Dubbed the “Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act” (the SPY ACT Act), H.R. 964 would limit all sorts of spyware, but it [...]
Malware writers are flooding the market with rogue anti-spyware applications in an attempt to steer consumers away from genuine security software and make money from selling bogus applications. Download service Snapfiles told vnunet.com that the rogue applications outnumber genuine software by a factor of four to one. Snapfiles hosts free and trial applications for consumers [...]
Most people can’t imagine living without computers. The fact is most businesses can’t either. Technology has allowed companies to gather information on consumers like never before, but some people may not be doing enough to protect their home computer. Whether it’s a casual surfer or a registered user, nearly every time you log onto a [...]
There generally are two types of pop-up messages. The first are the ones that actually originate from your system or a third party software that is installed on your computer. These messages are used to provide system information, errors, and warnings. The second type of pop-ups are advertisements, of which there are several subcategories. What [...]
Consider this a brief introduction to Linux. What exactly is Linux? Well, it’s the F/OSS (free/open source software) alternative to both Windows and Mac OS X. Free as in beer, open source as in the source code being available for all to inspect and modify, i.e., not proprietary (like the Colonel’s secret recipe). Why even [...]
The 110th Congress is making another effort to pass legislation that aims to protect Americans from spyware. It will make it illegal for companies to install the damaging and malicious software onto computers without the user’s permission. The news comes at a time when identity theft is rising, and more sites are uploading the snooping [...]
Everyday ConsumerAffairs.Com receives complaints from consumers who have been the victims of malicious spyware — software that secretly collects data and shares it with companies and advertisers who use that data to berate consumers with popups and occasionally steals identities. But a bill making its way through the House would potentially make the more [...]
McAfee Inc. announced the release of its second issue of Sage, a semi-annual security journal designed to inform executives and technical personnel on cutting-edge security topics. The journal includes articles from McAfee researchers, managers and evangelists, on topics including cybercrime, Microsoft Windows Vista security, spyware, spam, cell phone security, data leakage and security risk management. [...]
There could be a fair amount of information about you online. Much of it is in databases — for instance, court records. The information has always been available, but was inconvenient to find before the Internet. Many things can be removed. I have a link at www.komando.com/news to a column that explains that. Also, try [...]