The “latest” (of course this is a relative term) browser exploit to be aware of is a phishing attack called ‘tabnapping’ where a site changes itself to imitate another site in an attempt to steal your credentials. If this sounds confusing, this blog post from Aza Raskin (the creative lead of Firefox) explains it: How The Attack WorksA...

Knowing how to check the source, as in the raw "code," of an email is important because there will be times when you need to do it. Why? To check authenticity of an email. Spam and phishing emails are getting more tricky to identify all the time, and your best weapon against this is knowing how to check the source of an email. Unfortunately it is the...

As you are probably well aware, phishing scams are everywhere. I believe these are by far the most dangerous “computer” threat out there as their sole purpose is to steal important info (i.e. bank logins). While security programs attempt to detect these, I am extremely skeptical about relying on these programs (as you may know, I don’t believe...

If you haven’t heard, everybody (like here, here and here in addition to a ton of other places) is talking how a Hotmail phishing attack happened and somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000+ account passwords were leaked. Use Hotmail and think your account is compromised? Well, if you happen to be in European user and your account name started with an A or...

In the news recently, there was mention of a City in Montana requiring not only information on your social media accounts, but your user name and passwords as well. It goes without saying, this is huge concern to applicants’ privacy. On a related note, phishers and scammers are taking advantage of job applicants as well by setting up phony companies to...

I have noticed a few suspicious emails recently and people have forwarded me copies of an email appearing to come from Network Solutions Tech Support. This email is fake (here is the notice from Network Solutions). The only reason I am posting this as a tip is because several people have forwarded me this email telling me to make sure our domain information gets...

If you do any form of communication over the Internet, online frauds and scams are something you always have to be wary of. I have been fortunate enough to avoid such scams as I keep my email reasonably locked down, have a relatively good “BS detector” and am overall a tad bit on the cynical side (only slightly though!… maybe…). That...