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Consumers, including corporate and banking executives, appear to be targets of a bogus e-mail supposedly sent by the Federal Trade Commission but actually sent by third parties hoping to install spyware on computers. The bogus e-mail poses as an acknowledgment of a complaint filed by the recipient, and includes an attachment. Consumers who open the [...]
Access to networks and the resources therein require some type of authentication. For most companies, that means a username and a password. For far too many of those companies, that means a username and a weak, nearly useless password. Just because your company falls into the “small” business listing doesn’t mean don’t want to protect [...]
Someone visits a Web site that infects the PC and soon these pop-ups are happening one after another. (When it happens in rapid succession we call it a “porn storm.”). Turns out the classroom’s PC was running Windows 98 and had no anti-virus or anti-spyware on it. Anyway, this teacher, who was not very familiar [...]
If you’ve been near a computer more than a week you’ve seen this happen; someone visits a Web site that infects the PC and soon these pop-ups are happening one after another. (When it happens in rapid succession, we call it a “porn storm.”) Turns out the classroom’s PC was running Windows 98 and had [...]
Spyware can steal company secrets, your credit card or bank information, your identity, and it can crash your computer. In short, it’s not just for marketers anymore. Back in the day, spyware was an annoying little beastie that got buried in your computer and told DoubleClick how many times you bought faucets at Sears. If [...]
While the Internet, mobile computing and online advertising can help small fries compete with larger rivals, these digital tools also invite plenty of risk. Our advice: Don’t be a Luddite, but don’t lie awake at night, either. Do something about it. Fraud, for example, is a risk any business must deal with. Last year, North [...]
Experts warn that unseen cyber-thieves use aptly named “spyware” programs to snoop around computers, farming personal data and passwords and tracing every keystroke users make. Some members of Congress are trying to beef up laws against cyber-snooping, but critics say the proposals may go too far. Few disagree about spyware’s potential for damage. “There is [...]
A Taiwanese company named Vervata released a new version of a program named FlexiSPY on June 12 that promises the ability for people to track a wide range of usage details on Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and the Nokia Series 60 phones, among many other models. Unlike computer-borne spyware or most real-world computing hacks, the system [...]
Hackers have broken into the capital city of the State of Nevada’s general fund bank account and stolen $450,000. Investigators believe the hackers obtained the Carson City account log-in details after successfully uploading spyware to a city-owned computer. City treasurer Karen Avilla said she and her staff acted quickly after discovering the theft and, as [...]
The US House of Representatives has passed an anti-spyware bill that will force software distributors to seek consent before installing programs on a user’s computer. The latest measures are much stronger than those passed by the House last month, which set out penalties for the fraudulent use of spyware but did not seek to [...]
A suspended Kendallville police officer accused of using spyware to monitor the computer activity of a former girlfriend was charged Friday with two felony counts of computer tampering. Joseph E. Pegan, 33, surrendered for arrest Friday and was released on $4,500 bail. He is scheduled to make an initial court appearance Monday. Pegan used spyware [...]