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Description: Here you can offer advice and help on FAQ's regarding security issues on the web.

Newest Review: ... and say along the lines of your account has been frozen, please click on the link to access your account. When the unsuspecting targets click on the link it opens a web page that looks exactly like the real company concerned, entering details and password the targets suspect nothing at all wrong. The ... more

 ... hackers could ask for any other information that they have not got but they need. Then the targets get a confirmation that their account is ok and intact and the web page closes. Stage four. I will leave that to your imagination, but now they...more

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Premium Review grc.com/cb-faq.htm: They never ask for your password, do they? (1245 words)
by - written on 27/07/04 (Very useful, 124 readings)
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Before you read on I would like to make a couple of points clear, this is not a how to scam people instruction document. It is meant as a how it can be done and therefore how to avoid it happening to you. Just in case your wondering, no I have not and never would try to cheat people. A small group of computer literate people are grouped together in the corner of a bar sharing a drink and working out their how to get rich quick master plan. They have decided if they can find out enough information about peoples online habits they will be able to target those people with scam emails and then having collected the information use it to ...  Read the complete review

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Premium Review FAQ On Cookies And Other Security Issues (444 words)
by - written on 16/09/00 (Very useful, 67 readings)
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Did you know that when you visit a web site, some web sites are storing abit of information on your computer? They store a little file on your PC which is known as cookies. They then use this cookie to find out what sort of web sites you visit, which links you clicked on etc. They usually use all this information to send you appropriate information to your PC. How do they do that? Well, have you been on to web sites and then find a little seperate window opening, which usually is advertising something? Well some of those advertisements are generated by information taken from these cookies!! These kinda web sites are intruding on ...  Read the complete review

 
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