User name and passwords of AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and YahooMail were illegally leaked online but sites that contained the lists have already taken them offline. Users are advised to change their webmail passwords immediately.
 
According to security experts, the usernames and passwords were gathered using a phishing scheme. Phishing schemes fools users into entering their username and password by creating a bogus website that appears the same as the legitimate ones. The only difference is that the username and password goes to criminals instead of the legitimate website. For example, you …

Here is an email from a parent that is currently being spread around…
I received this email from a friend and I want to share it with parents as this concerns us all. This is really scary that it could happen to anyone’s kids….What is happening to these kids?
 
Here is the email:
 
Dear Ateneo parents, students and STOYA members, Three months back, I found out that an "OPEN PARTY" organized by students of the Assumption was booked at our village clubhouse. In this event, …

This article will show you how to remove the virus and worms in your computer.

 
What an interesting spam scam email…
 
Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division. Federal Bureau Of Investigation. J.Edgar.Hoover Building Washington Dc Attn: Beneficiary,   This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our  Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central …

 
Source: Microsoft

As a parent, you want to help make your family’s experiences safer and more secure, and you want to provide good guidance. Windows Live OneCare Family Safety can help.
OneCare Family Safety is a Web service that’s free to people who use Microsoft Windows XP. The American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) helped Microsoft develop age-based guidance for Internet use that’s included in
Note: If you use Windows Vista—the operating system installed on many new computers—you can use the built-in family safety tools.
Use OneCare Family Safety to:
•Configure safer Web browsing and …

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 …

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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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.

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