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How Phishing Works & How To Spot The Scams

Phishing scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated and it can be difficult to tell a legitimate email from a phishing email. This article explains how phishing works and how you can easily raise your employees (and your own) awareness in order to avoid be burned.

Published by Brett Callow (5942 pts) on Apr 30, 2009 to
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How to use Windows Internet Explorer’s Phishing Filter

Microsoft introduced the Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer 7 to help protect users from unintentionally going to a phishing site. This article will walk you through the various aspects of using the Internet Explorer 7 Phishing Filter.

Published by Ryan Tetzlaff (4648 pts) on Apr 30, 2009 to
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How to Secure Opera Browser

Using Opera instead of Internet Explorer and Firefox gives the average user a definite security advantage right from day one. This article covers a few additional ways to tighten the security around the Opera browser.

Published by Karishma Sundaram (4694 pts) on Apr 29, 2009 to
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Top 5 Security Add-ons for Firefox

You can never be too cautious when surfing the web. Malicious software can always find ways to beat exploits in web browsers and can attack your system. This is why this list has been compiled to help make your web surfing experience safer.

Published by Matthew Becker (5234 pts) on Apr 29, 2009 to
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ShuURL: Safe URL Redirection using Web of Trust

ShuURL is a free online URL Redirection service that now uses Web of Trust (WOT), a popular browser add-on that will help users surf safely by avoiding malicious websites and internet security threats.

Published by Donna Buenaventura (8705 pts) on Apr 24, 2009 to
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eBay Sellers: Beware of the Advance Fee Scam

Wouldn't you be suspicious if someone offered you more money than the actual sale price of an item, then expected you to wire transfer them back the difference? People fall for this trick all the time, and most of the money is never recovered.

Published by Bill Fulks (18145 pts) on Apr 6, 2009 to
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What is Vishing?

In recent years, phishing scams have become increasingly common. This wave of threat has lead to another way of performing a scam, over the voice communication systems. This new way is called vishing. Find out more about this emerging threat below.

Published by Bright Tech (4914 pts) on Apr 2, 2009 to
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Effective Methods To Prevent Becoming a Phising Scam Victim

Phising is a common email and internet scam, with which scammers attempt to fraudulently steal one's private information. This article explains effective methods that can help you easily detect and avoid a phising scam.

Published by Bright Tech (4914 pts) on Mar 30, 2009 to
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Social Networking Safety: Protecting Against Malware

In the final part of this series, we address how to protect a computer from malware when using social networking. Malware is dangerous and may cause the need for costly repairs to a computer. So knowing how to avoid it is important.

Published by Lucinda Watrous (17979 pts) on Mar 16, 2009 to
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Beware of IRS Phishing Scams this Tax Season

Every year around tax time, crooks run phishing scams where they pose as the IRS and try to steal people's personal information by tempting them with high tax refunds of threatening an audit. Educate yourself and others so that you do not fall victim to this online fraud.

Published by Bill Fulks (18145 pts) on Feb 23, 2009 to
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