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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Keeping Safe this Holiday Season

In the last year internet scams and theft have risen so much, I don't even dare guess at a percentage. I do know though even with that going shopping is in stores is becoming a thing of past. More stores are putting their better sales amd inventory online and making in store experiences worse so they can drive the customer online instead. The reason, pure and simple bottom line.

With that said your security while shopping is even more at stake. Criminals are becoming trickier at mugging you. Just as if it was in the parking lot at Kroger or Sam's Club. You watch for suspicious things. In this case, emails and bad web links are the first clues.

1) Never click a link in your email to log in and check your account. The email may say it is from someplace, but actually be some place else set to steal your information.

2) Never, Ever, Ever email your password to anyone. Even someone claiming to be technical support. Usually Tech Support can access your password themselves. If not then call them to give it.

3) Always make sure the website has either a https address or uses a payment solution like paypal, google wallet, or such.

In these changing times, we as consumers need to change as well to stay safe. The time of traditional brick and mortar stores is not at an end, but an evolution. Criminals are changing as well and even though businesses do their best, we need to still watch as well.

Steven Young
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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Someone's Still Trying.

Well it would seam that 3 days down was not enough for someone to be content, this time they tried a java exploit. Children, please go get a job for real, all you will do is end up in jail if you keep this up. Note, this does show that Qualys does work and does catch things. Thanks to access loggging as well I have the IP addresses to turn over to the authorities as well.

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Seem's someone is noticing me

Well it would seem in the last week or maybe even longer someone has noticed me, My website http://www.saacomputer.com has come under attack. Some of you out there would say 'yeah right' but I use Qualys to scan my site daily, on both the 29th and the 30th my site tested true for Malware. Both days that it was found I imeadiatly upon being notified of the infection cleaned the site. Both days the infection was employed differently, first was through an iframe implementation and the second time was an embedded javascript. All I can think off is that someone does not like the fact I inform users of what is out there and what to avoid. Educated users are less likely to become infected which in turns lowers the rate of which these malicious children are able to do damage. Well I have to thank the children as now I know at least someone reads my posts and notices my work. It also tells me that I may be on the right path of educating people.

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Monday, March 22, 2010

SEO Poisoning, The latest CSI episode or just kids with to much time?

SEO Poisoning, Sounds like a murder mystery for Sherlock Holmes or Gil Grissom (Though I like Abby on NCIS better). In fact it is the art of getting websites that will make you infect your computer with Rogue AV's to the top of very recently popular searches. Rogue Anti Viruses are really Viruses Desqused as Anti Viruses and will cost you Money, Stress, and Time. The rogue AV will say your infected with a large number of Viruses usually Trojans and will then say to remove them you need to buy the full version. This in turn means you enter your credit card information and hit the Buy button, then, wait, and nothing happens. It does not activate or remove the viruses, in fact it sent your credit card information to the writters of the virus. They now have your CC Info and you still have the virus. All because you were searching for the latest gossip about some famous person, or the latest game scores, or the olympic outcomes, while the games are actually still playing. That is what SEO Poisoning is, not you getting upset and feeding your marketer Hemlock cause your google rank is not high enough. So what does this mean? It means that even though you just heard about it today or that the big game is on and your looking for the latest instant replay, you could still be searching for trouble and find it in the form of a computer virus.

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