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[3 Oct 2008 | No Comment | 1,182 views]
Credit Card Skimming: Hi-Tech Theft

Did you know that thieves can steal your card without you knowing it?
 
What is credit card skimming?
Skimming works by retrofitting a perfectly legitimate card reader (such as an ATM) with a camouflaged counterfeit card reader. The counterfeit reader records all of your card’s information as it passes through.
 

 
The first step that thieves take is to buy skimming gear online for around $400 from one of a slew of sources - many of them legitimate companies selling credit card readers to retailers. The thief then buys a card …

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[22 Sep 2008 | One Comment | 719 views]
iPod Alternatives

 

Want a player that looks different from Nano, costs less, includes features like an FM radio or voice recorder, and lets you drag and drop songs from your computer desktop instead of going through Apple’s iTunes software?

Check out these alternatives to the Apple army that can support several file types including MP3 and Windows Media (WMA) tunes, MPEG4 videos and JPEG photos. They are not perfect, but nothing’s ever perfect!
Iriver Lplayer
If iriver’s PMP lineup isn’t quite extensive enough for you yet, the E100 and …

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[20 Sep 2008 | No Comment | 1,603 views]

 
A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but it’s still nice to have a way of taking screenshots that’s easier than typing an essay. The Screengrab Firefox extension aims to fit this bill. Install Screengrab, and according to your needs, you’ll be able to save an entire page, what you can see in a window, a selection, or a particular frame. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146
 
It will save what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves …

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[18 Sep 2008 | 2 Comments | 625 views]

The activist group called "anonymous," has hacked into the private Yahoo e-mail account of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The group "anonymous" is best known for its jousts with the Church of Scientology. Palin is  the Republican candidate for vice president. Contents of that account, including two sample e-mails, an index of messages and Palin family photos, have been posted by the whistleblower site Wikileaks, which contends that they constitute evidence that Palin has improperly used her private e-mail to shield government business from public scrutiny, an issue that had already …

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[16 Sep 2008 | One Comment | 2,738 views]

AlertPay is an internet payment service allowing you to send and receive money online securely and quickly. Learn more about AlertPay…

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[15 Sep 2008 | No Comment | 494 views]

Apple Software Update says this is an update to iTunes and QuickTime, it doesn’t mention any additional software, services, or drivers. But it turns out that the full package offers much, much more than it discloses, including the potential for Windows crashes.

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[15 Sep 2008 | No Comment | 374 views]

A disgruntled system administrator accused of locking San Francisco out of its IT network may cost the city more than $1M in upgrades

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[13 Sep 2008 | No Comment | 734 views]

The most dynamic of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sectors in the Philippines, the contact center industry or the call center industry as it is most popularly called in the Philippines, has experienced an annual growth rate of…

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[12 Sep 2008 | No Comment | 450 views]

AntiFun The AntiFun tool is used to protect a system from Funlove infection coming over a network. The AntiFun tool will prevent the FunLove virus from creating the dropper executable to System directory. It will not prevent any other files on the system from being infected. Download: ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/tools/antifun.zip Readme: ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/tools/antifun.txt
AntiSirc The purpose of the tool is to help the removal of the Sircam worm. The removal process is rather complex and assumes deletion of …

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[11 Sep 2008 | No Comment | 491 views]
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