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 | from Tony Bradley, CISSP The victims of Hurricane Katrina and the hundreds of thousands now homeless from the hurricane's destruction all need help from anyone who can provide it. You have to watch out for sammers trying to capitalize on your generosity though. Check out my article this week on how to steer clear of Hurricane Katrina scams. I also posted a number of book reviews this week. Next week there will be new book reviews, but also product reviews as well. Tuesday is Microsoft's monthly patch release date, but preliminary reports suggest that there will be no new Security Bulletins for September. |
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| Beware Hurricane Katrina Scams Tragedies and natural disasters are often used by those with less than honorable intentions as a means of tricking users. Hurricane Katrina is no exception. One week after the hurricane devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, there are hoax chain letters, phishing sites aimed at stealing your identity and financial information and malware...read more |
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| Book Review: Phishing Have you received an email this week from eBay, Citibank, Paypal or some other financial institution or commercial entity claiming that there is some sort of issue with your account information and luring you to a web site to "verify", "validate" or otherwise update your information? Odds are VERY high that it was not a legitimate message, but actually a phishing attack...read more | |||||||
| Book Review: Hacking Exposed- Computer Forensics Responding to security incidents is part of a network or security administrator's job. But, if the incident response is not handled properly, any chance of pursuing legal action against the attacker may be shot. In Hacking Exposed: Computer Forensics, Chris...read more | |||||||
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