New FedEx Virus Email
Back in November, I wrote about an airline ticket virus email. Now it’s FedEx: today I received this email supposedly from FedEx with a zip file attachment: If you open …
Reduce US Bank Fraud with Check Card Alerts
On December 24, I received an email from US Bank informing me that a purchase had been made the previous day about two thousand miles away using my VISA debit …
New Airline Ticket Virus Email
Today I received an email supposedly from American Airlines with an Zip file attachment: If you open the zip file, you’ll see what looks like a Word document: However if …
“We Are Going to Sue You” Virus Spam
A new spam email warns that you will be sued—for sending spam! Don’t worry about being sued, but do worry about opening the attachment that purports to be a scanned …
“We Are Going to Sue You” Virus Spam
A new spam email warns that you will be sued—for sending spam! Don’t worry about being sued, but do worry about opening the attachment that purports to be a scanned …
Free Laptop Anti-Theft Tracking
This is pretty cool: preyproject.com. You install a small piece of software on your laptop or phone. If you lose the device, log in to the Prey web site and …
Anatomy of a Hacked Web Site
Today I visited www.dmachoice.org, the web site of the Direct Marketing Association, intending to update my opt-out preferences. I was surprised when one of the pages took me off their …
Cyberheist Not the Bank’s Problem
I’ve recently become aware of a legal case where a company lost a huge amount of money due to a computer virus. Hackers used the virus to steal the company’s …
Rework
Just finished a great little book called REWORK. About 100 pages of nuggets on how to run a small business, especially a small software company. Many of the suggestions are …
The Next Scam: Tech Support Calls You
A user contacted me yesterday telling me, “I just got a weird call from someone with an Indian accent saying his company had been getting error messages and they wanted …