privacy/security
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007It’s scary how easy is to be snared in an email “phishing” attempt. I have told you how to avoid phishing attempts several times in the past. Now get this - I almost fell for one of these scams just last week.
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Pegasus Email Client Being Flagged as a Trojan…
Friday, May 18th, 2007Over the years I have highly recommended the Pegasus email client. I still do if you are an advanced user.
David Harris the creator of Pegasus sent this email that talks about Norton Antivirus flagging Pegasus as a Trojan. It is not. If you use Pegasus and Norton read this note carefully and protect yourself.
The Pegasus […]
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TNPC More on Security…
Friday, May 18th, 2007TNPC Newsletter
by Dan Butler
17 May 2007
Last issue we talked about routers in general and default
passwords in particular. The advice to change your default
password carries over to everything you do. Bank accounts,
online accounts, email accounts, your ISP account and many more.
Always change the default password in any account. You should
also consider your PIN numbers as passwords […]
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Just How Widespread are Security Breaches?
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Here is some interesting data on what is happening to your private information. etiolated.org shows graphs and other statistical data on security breaches. You will find it interesting.
http://www.etiolated.org/
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Fingerprinted for Selling Your Music CD’s?
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007Interesting article at ars technica on laws popping up around the U.S. concerning the sale of used music CD’s to Pawn shops and used music stores. It is really a bit depressing. I’m all for avoiding piracy of digital goods but at some point it just gets silly.
Read this article for yourself here
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TSA Loses Hard Drive…
Saturday, May 5th, 2007Story on how a portable hard drive with information on 100,000 people was gone missing at the TSA.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070505/D8OTUCJ80.html
How do these things keep happening? And why isn’t the first thing we here something like “Don’t worry. We keep that sort of data encrypted and the chances of an outsider are slim.” Why don’t we hear […]
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Credit Card Fraud - Your Fault?
Sunday, March 11th, 2007From Stuff.co.nz:
If criminals steal money from your bank or use your credit card remotely, the chances are you’re to blame.
Click here to read the full story…
Good article on basic ways to protect your card. The parts about you being responsible for fraud are worth noting and frustrating. Basically the credit card industry wants to shift […]
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Safer Email Tips
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007Six ways to avoid email problems.
TNPC Newsletter
by Dan Butler
09 January 2007
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TNPC 4 Tips to Protect Your Data…
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006Be proactive - keep your system safe
TNPC Newsletter
by Dan Butler
21 November 2006
Hello
The Thanksgiving holiday is this week, here in the U.S. and it
will be a short work week for many of you, so this will be a
short letter. This issue has an article with tips on avoiding
viruses and a pointer to a blog post I […]
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TNPC: What is privacy?…
Thursday, August 24th, 2006TNPC Newsletter
by Dan Butler
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