Get paranoid: There's a spook in your inbox
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Remember when the CIA was a dark, malevolent force lurking in the shadows of our lives, tapping our phones, reading our mail, and planting explosive devices in Castro's cigars? Well, they're baaaack. Only now it's the National Security Agency, and they're snooping into your e-mail, cell phone conversations, and Lord knows what else.
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If you remember those 1970âs era âHang in There, Babyâ posters, the phrase âJust because youâre paranoid doesnât mean theyâre not out to get youâ -- of similar vintage -- will probably ring a bell. But while that treacly picture of a kitten hanging onto a rope is now a laughable bit of nostalgia, the observation about paranoia is more relevant than ever.
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New Web ads respond to your activities--and this has privacy advocates worried.
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Email threats are getting more and more sophisticated as spam, viruses, phishing, and spyware blend together. Learn how to thwart today's sophisticated blended threats.
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Red Hat is warning users that an email purporting to be a security update may contain malicious code. The email - which began appearing last Friday - uses a security@redhat.
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GADFLY ALREADY the internet age has given us 'phishing', when criminals use emails to persuade you to give them your bank details.  Now it seems we have the less crooked but nonetheless enraging online experience of 'philfing'  an acronym for 'purposely hiding what I'm looking for'.
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Splogs are the latest thing in online scams -- and they could smother the internet like a pestilence. By Charles C. Mann from Wired magazine.
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Security experts are warning about an e-mail making the rounds that tells users about a new Microsoft "security update" that turns out to be bogus.
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An invitation to chat by Webcam could come with malicious code.
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Here's how nontechnical users can secure their own instant-messaging conversations such that an attacker is unable to listen in (be it the government or a nosy neighbor).
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Internet spammers launched a widespread attack on e-mail inboxes this month. But instead of trying to lure users into opening a corrupted attachment, they're concealing a computer virus in a link to an online greeting card.
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Coimbatore: Have you noticed a rise in the number of unsolicited junk e-mails or spam in recent days? Most Net users would have, particularly after a holiday or when the system had remained shut for a couple of days.
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By Steve Lawson  HOW paranoid are you about leaving a trail of evidence every time you surf the net?  If the answer is 'very' then news of a new privacy tool will have you reaching for the download button. But hang on a minute.
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As people spend more time online &#151; and logged into instant messaging services &#151; it's inevitable that there are times they just can't respond. That's why the "away message" &#151; set up to be sent automatically from someone's account &#151; has become so popular.
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Check to see whether an e-mail that appears to be from your bank is actually an attempt to defraud you.
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Beware of any e-mail claiming to come from "frauddep@ftc.gov"--it carries a nasty payload.
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'Tis the season for online scams, spam, and malware attacks. Here's what you need to know.