Thursday, March 26, 2009

Fix it quick - please

rockford zdnet's blog is reporting a serious security flaw in Mozilla's Firefox. 

"Mozilla’s security response team is scrambling to ready a patch for what appears to be a serious security flaw affecting its flagship Firefox browser."

Read more at Exploit Code....

With that info,

Safer Surfing!

It IS time to take action.

rockfordIt is time to take action!  I know many of you do not like MS and all the updates it has but they do make things more secure.  April 1st is set to be a bad day for the Internet users of the world.  If your machine is secure, like mine, then you should be safe

Please read up on this and make sure your machine is secure.

Security Garden

Bits from Bill

With that info,

Safer surfing!

Sunday, March 8, 2009

What time is it?

rockfordWhoever thought this Daylight Savings Time idea was a good one must have been smoking those left-handed cigarettes.  Nobody remembers what to do - Spring forward, fall back or is it spring back and fall down?

Thanks to the Government we can always take a look to make sure that that Timex is still ticking - in the right direction!

Here's a big help.

time

With that info,

Good Morning, no wait, Good Evening, aw crap, how about

Safer Surfing!

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Fake IRS phishing scams on the rise

rockford Subject: please see the attachment
Sender (fake): Internal Revenue Service [nonereply@irs.gov]
Message: Please see the attachment make sure you fill all the columns and send fax to: +1-646-308-1145.

This type of phishing has been around for a while, but it’s the first time I’ve received a message like this - maybe I’ve just been lucky, because I know my address is all over spammer databases


This is so-called offline phishing; the bad guys don’t even go to the trouble of making a fake site, but just ask you to fax through all your details. Using a fax number gives an additional aura of credibility to the whole thing – most people have heard of phishing sites, but a lot of them won’t have heard of phishing by fax. And the combination of a government department and a fax number fits perfectly with the perception that public institutions are more than a bit behind the times.

Read more here

 

With that info,

Safer Surfing!