Thought I would write a quick post to alert you to a scam email I received recently. Unfortunately in this instance a person I know had their email account hacked, then the scam email was sent to people either in their address book or sent folder. Luckily my contact discovered their account was hacked, regained [...]
Two European governments have warned against using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (all versions). First of all the German government warned users to use an alternative browser to protect security and now the French government. My personal recommendation is Mozilla’s firefox that rose from the ashes of the Netscape browser project. Regardless of security I’ve found every [...]
In the UK it has been reported that passwords for completing online tax returns are being stolen. It is thought this is being done by people stealing paperwork (including finding paperwork in the trash and other means) or tricking people to hand over details. Then the thief or whoever receives the stolen logon details are [...]
Sorry about the title, was watching lost in space the other day. Anyhow the point being you need to be cautious and manage your email accounts properly. This article is part of a series of blog posts regarding identity theft and security. Today I will be writing about mixing personal and business email, primarily when [...]
CommandN the excellent Tech show mentioned spam this week (show #149) and also the comments were a good read also on their site. If you have not caught the show go watch asap. http://commandn.typepad.com/ I thought of the recent show whilst cleaning up and configuring some email accounts. There was an amazing amount of spam [...]