Do not install any Facebook application claiming to be an Anti-Virus program. In the instance discussed in the link below, if you install this app to your profile it will take a picture and tag 20 of your friends. If they click on the link to install the AV, their profile will become infected. Read [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Apple releases huge patch. Covers 88 vulnerabilities
March 29th, 2010
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Apple has released a patch (A BIG one at that), numbered 10.6.3, that covers 88 vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X operating system. See the Apple announcement here- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 See Ryan Naraine’s post on the ThreatPost blog- http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/apple-mega-patch-covers-88-mac-os-x-vulnerabilities-032910 Make sure to update. Don’t give the bad guys a chance to own your machine!!!
Added all shows to Blip.tv
March 18th, 2010
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Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that every episode of the podcast has been uploaded to Blip.tv Link: Cyber Crime 101 on Blip.tv
Episode 9- Reporting a “Cyber” Crime
March 17th, 2010
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This episode, I cover how to report your internet or computer related crime to Law Enforcement. SHOW NOTES: Links: Cyber Crime 101 Screencast: Finding Webmail Email Headers Print Screen information: – Linux: http://tips.webdesign10.com/how-to-take-a-screenshot-on-ubuntu-linux – Mac: http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#capturescreen – Windows: http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-in-Microsoft-Windows Internet Crime Complaint Center: www.ic3.gov Send SPAM to the Federal Trade Commission- spam@uce.gov ATF Local Offices [...]
Celebrity Death = New Malware Sites
March 10th, 2010
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News Alert!!! Corey Haim was found dead at age 38. Some of you may decide to do a little searching on the internet for news & tidbits about the story or you may even navigate to a “memorial” page. Well, my advice is to stick to traditional (read: trusted) news sources for this. Reason being [...]
iTunes link added
March 7th, 2010
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Apparently, I had forgotten to add a link to subscribe to the show in iTunes. That issue was corrected. A button was added under the “Find the show on the following” header in the sidebar. Thanks to O’Day for bringing that to my attention. Joe
Getting my screencasts on!!!
March 5th, 2010
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Working on some screencasts to accompany the next episode of the show. First time playing with screencasts, so hopefully not as painful as I am figuring
New show coming this week
March 1st, 2010
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Sorry for the delay folks. Now that ShmooCon & an exam are out of the way, I can actually get a show recorded this week. Should be ready for Thursday this week. Thanks for everyone’s patience, Joe
