Spyware

The first iPhone Trojan has been seen in the wild, according to security vendors. Security firm Fortinet has warned that Facebook users face certain disappointment and possible spyware if they attempt to discover who sent them a "Secret Crush" application invite.

clipped from 1st-in-computervirus.com Lets Talk About Antivirus Software! With the increased number of Internet users, the existing threats are also raising as now there are many more computers to attack and more people that dont know to stay away from these threats. But the antivirus software producers are making it easier for us. There is a lot of antivirus software which cover a lot of threats. All we have to do is install one.

clipped from www.darkreading.com Botnets: Computer Crime’s Service Providers Today’s botnets — the service providers of tomorrow’s mass hacks and computer crimes — currently are undergoing a similar revolution.

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Cookies, Spam and Spyware: Can They Be Kosher? Jules Polonetsky, chief privacy officer at AOL, will talk about consumer topics on the Web. 6:30 p.m., Morrison & Foerster, 1650 Tysons Blvd. Suite 400, McLean. Sponsor: The Technology Affinity of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. Contact:...

clipped from www.pcworld.com Keep Tabs on Your Financial Data to Fight Identity Theft Quick, what’s the combined balance for all of your checking, savings, and credit card accounts? Have any of them incurred large or unusual charges recently? Can’t say? Most people can’t. But knowing such details and other account information will help you recover more quickly from identity theft, if you’re ever unlucky enough to become a victim.

The phrase, most famously engraved in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, forms the basis of many of today’s most practical and productive life-hacks, the tools we use to be better people with better lives. Or think of Cognitive Behavior Therapy , in which you think yourself free of depression by keeping careful records of the deeds and events that bring you low, and use that journal to understand when your mind is blowing reality out of proportion. The recent-documents list in your word processor, your email program’s capacity to remember the people you’ve emailed before — all little bits of useful mental prosthesis, external systems that help you keep track of what you do, so that you can do it better. It’s the folly that drives merchants, bosses and governments to watch us through a million CCTV cameras, track us through spyware that keeps track of what we install on our PCs, follow us around the Web with beacons , count our keystrokes, and log our library books. It’s hard to believe that all the folks sitting on top of Amazon, Google, iTunes and the other giant databases of personal info are any less inclined to snoop and bend the rules than the police are. More Spyware News

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