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As students become more and more dependent on computers to carry out daily tasks, it is important to know how to keep them safe from viruses and spyware. It’s a misconception that viruses and spyware are the same thing. Badri Rajagopalan, assistant to the director of the college of arts and sciences information technology team, [...]
Elaina Mastrilli knew she had a computer virus when her background image disappeared, only to be replaced by a pair of enormous breasts. Files had gone missing before, and it became a game to see what the person who hacked my computer would do next, Mastrilli, a first-year engineering student, says. She tried updating her [...]
Hacking kits, enabling criminals to break into personal email and bank accounts, are being sold on eBay, online security experts have warned. Anyone wanting to obtain private information from a computer can buy the spying software for as little as £10. The warning, from PC Tools, suppliers of computer security products, follows a report that [...]
I’m reporting in from Madrid, where I’ve ventured for a big international press event being held by Acer. On my way here, I had a brief layover in Chicago at O’Hare Airport. I popped open my notebook to get on Wi-Fi and check e-mail. As usual, my notebook picked up a bunch of open networks [...]
Widgets have become the unexpected buzzword of 2007; just a few weeks ago I discussed how they can be used for marketers to disseminate information. But I’m realizing that this buzz is eerily similar to the buzz that surrounded desktop applications in the late ’90s. Desktop applications and embedded applications became hot — right up [...]
A WAR is raging in cyberland, and you are caught in the crossfire. Not content with blowing each other’s brains out in internet-based multiplayer games, malicious geeks are battling each other to see who can infect your computer to produce the biggest harvest of email addresses. According to IT security firm Kapersky Labs, the winners [...]
It’s a rehashed, decade-old debate, but one that boils down to one main point: Macintosh computers are superior to personal computers in nearly every way. Most people’s initial complaint against Macs is they are too hard to use. PC users in particular have this gripe, but in reality, Macs don’t operate that differently. The main [...]
The tremendous benefits of computing in the Internet Age have come at a price. Viruses, worms, Trojan horses, DDoS attacks, spyware, phishing — the list of network-based threats seems to grow longer every day. In response, IT managers pile security countermeasures onto servers and workstations, malware authors find ways around them, and the cycle continues.
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An Ohio man facing a lawsuit from his wife’s friend for intercepting her emails using spyware on a household computer filed suit Friday against the spyware maker, arguing the company’s ads failed to warn him that using it to monitor his family, including his wife, would violate state and federal laws. Relying on a federal [...]
You’ve undoubtedly seen these ads pop up during your web browsing experience. Click OK (as I know from your emails that many of you have done) and you’re actually installing spyware, not removing it. The scam comes a few days later, when you’re asked to pay a bunch of money in order to remove “additional” [...]
One controversial issue among social networks is how hard they should push for user acquisition. Most social networks these days let you to import your email address book in some way (Twitter is the latest), but most make it clear if they’re about to mail your contacts. One site that’s catching people off guard is [...]