Pump & Dump Stock Scams
Careful what you wish for ... penny stockers beware: A lot of people out there are looking for a fast buck. There's an entire population of online users who troll the stock markets each day looking for...
View ArticlePump-n-Dump #2
Here's a follow-up to our January article on the Pump & Dump stock scams now barraging everyone's email boxes ... read more
View ArticleAnti-Malware in Snow Leopard
Intego posted an article about Apple's new anti-malware function in Snow Leopard. This article provided a comparison of Apple's anti-malware function and VirusBarrier X5, and outlines some of the...
View ArticleBeware Dangerous Searches
It's amazing how the cybercriminals can infect just about anything. When a search word becomes popular -- you can bet the crooks are there waiting to catch you! Here, I look into several warnings about...
View Article#211: Rush does it again
Thursday, I got a phone call from a reader who remembered an old 2003 article of mine in 60-Second Windows. The near frantic voice on the line said "Fred, you've got to turn on the radio right now ......
View ArticleBeware Spyware on your Mac
Intego has discovered a spyware application that is installed by a number of freely distributed Mac applications and screen savers found on a variety of websites. read more
View ArticlePump-n-Dump is BACK
If you've been with me and 60-seconds since January of 2006, you'll remember my series of articles both here and at the UGNN.com site regarding "pump and dump" stock market scams. Well, the...
View ArticleBeware bogus offers for Adobe products
Unfortunately, this goes on all the time -- and I would normally post this to the Safenetting or UGNN site -- but this directly affects DTG and Design Center readers, so I'm posting it here ... BEWARE...
View ArticleDigital Forensics Solve Crimes
The good guys are getting better and better at capturing online criminals. Digital Forensics plays a huge role in solving all kinds of crimes. This article from the FBI is a sober reminder that what we...
View ArticleWho would block the Spam Cop ???
I recently was surprised by what I thought was professional web company who are quite popular and offer quite a bit of information. They offer industry marketing reports, and when signing my email...
View Article60-Seconds 304: Moaning about government surveillance? Seriously?
I have to write this rant once about ever couple of years or so. I preached it in the late 1980s, I preached it in the mid-1990s, then again in the 2000s and I guess it's time again. read more
View Article60-Seconds #317 : Goodbye SpamCop
As many of you know I've been an avid spam fighter and anti-spam advocate since the dawn of email. You may remember several articles I've written over the past two decades about SpamCop. Well, with...
View Article60-Seconds #328 : Why do cybercrime spam cartels keep sending the same, tired...
As many of you already know, I've been a volunteer spam fighter since February 15th, 1999. I had a passion about helping keep the Internet clean since developing forums for GEnie, eWorld and America...
View Article60-Seconds #337 : Sirius Radio set a Spam Trap and caught me!
Like anyone, I hate to be had. This is one for the record books, and probably becoming fairly widespread -- but I don't call in very often, so this was new to me. Sirius wouldn't let me follow online...
View Article60-Seconds #340 : Does Stephen Hawking or Wolf Blitzer know they are spam...
It occured to me the other day that I sure am glad I'm not Stephen Hawking. But then the little voice said aren't you ashamed of yourself, Mr. Hawking along with Wolf Blitzer*, Anderson Cooper* and Jon...
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60-Seconds #337 : I wonder if Jimmy Buffett ever tried to get Margaritaville...
Jimmy Buffet once sang ... "Now you may be thinking that I was had..." but I was the one who had been had! Who is to blame? I know it wasn't Jimmy Buffett's fault! read more
View Article60-Seconds #339 : The Anatomy of a Clickbait Predator Spam site, and what to...
FLAMED : After getting flamed on Facebook, called a racist and told I did not know what a 'click bait' site is, I had to go look and see if the rules had changed, or if there was some other measurement...
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