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Aunty’s dear readers will remember the story of Eliazar Velasquez, the high school student who caught his principal smoking - on camera - and posted the evidence to the Internet.
Anti-virus leader Trend Micro has announced that they are offering a free virus and spam checker for mobile phones.
With more and more people carrying an almost dizzying array of increasingly sophisticated “Smart Phones”, many analysts see cell phones as the next frontier for virus writers. And of course SMS spam is already on the rise.
Dubbed […]
First it was spam - the junk email we all know and love to hate.
Then it was spim, which is spam sent by instant messenger (hence the “i m”).
Move over boys, and meet “spit”.
Spit is spam sent to a Voice Over IP (VoIP) connection, another name for which is “Internet telephony” (hence the “i t”).
And […]
Microsoft, AOL, Earthlink, and several other industry giants, along with the FBI, the FTC, the U.S. Secret Service, and the USPS announced today the formation of Digital PhishNet, a collaborative initiative designed to
take phishers down by arresting and convicting them.
“The key to stopping phishers and bringing them to justice is to identify
and target them quickly,” […]