Wait! Don’t Click On That Link!

16 Tuesday Sep 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Computer Virus, Cybersecurity, Emails, Legal Technology, Malware, Trojans

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Email, Ian Paul, Mail Merge, Malware, PC World, Spam

Three Warning Signs That Email Is Malicious, by Ian Paul, PC World

Email spam filtering is far better than it used to be. There was a time when nearly every scam email would land in your inbox. Thankfully that’s not the case anymore—especially if you’re a Gmail user.

But no system is perfect. Every now and then a scam message will manage to slip into your inbox. But how do you know when you’re looking at a scam or not?

Here are three basic tip-offs you can look for to figure out whether you’re looking at an email with dishonest intentions. They’re hardly an exhaustive list, but more often than not one of these tips will save you from getting suckered. . . .

PC World’s Answer Line — Solutions to Various Computer Problems.

11 Sunday May 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Computer Virus, Legal Technology, Malware, Microsoft Office, PC Computers

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Answer Line Solutions, Tips and Answers for PC Problems from Lincoln Spector, PC World

http://www.pcworld.com/column/answer-line/

You may not want or have the skills to build or fix your PC computer. But no doubt there are a few things you would like to do for yourself, such as, recovering a deleted file? What about setting — and keeping — a preferred default font in Word or recovering files after a malware attack? Even if you are tech-challenged, this site answers all types of questions in a language anyone can understand. Browse a while. You may find something that interests you. -CCE

More on Heartbleed.

12 Saturday Apr 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Android Phones, Apple, Apps, Cell Phones, Chrome, Clouds, Heartbleed, Malware

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Computer Virus, Computers, Divorce Discourse, Hackers, Heartbleed, Lee Rosen, Malware, Passwords

Heartbleed Security Flaw Got You Worried? Good., by Lee Rosen, Divorce Discourse

http://www.divorcediscourse.com/heartblead-security-flaw-worried-good/

If I haven’t gotten your attention yet, more on Heartbleed. -CCE

How Target Missed Malware Alarms and Blew It.

14 Friday Mar 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Consumer Law, Credit Repair, Criminal Law, Finance and Banking Law, Identity Theft

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Bangalore, Bloomberg Businessweek, FireEye, Gregg Steinhafel, Hackers, Internet Security, Jim Walter. McAfee, Malware, Nieman Marcus, Target, Technology, U.S. Department of Justice, Verizon Enterprise Solutions

Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It, by Michael Riley, Ben Elgin, Dune Lawrence, and Carol Matlack, Bloomberg Businessweek Technology

http://tinyurl.com/njsy4rm

The biggest retail hack in U.S. history wasn’t particularly inventive, nor did it appear destined for success. In the days prior to Thanksgiving 2013, someone installed malware in Target’s (TGT) security and payments system designed to steal every credit card used at the company’s 1,797 U.S. stores. At the critical moment—when the Christmas gifts had been scanned and bagged and the cashier asked for a swipe—the malware would step in, capture the shopper’s credit card number, and store it on a Target server commandeered by the hackers.

It’s a measure of how common these crimes have become, and how conventional the hackers’ approach in this case, that Target was prepared for such an attack. . . .

Email Virus Running Amuck In Some Appellate Courts.

17 Monday Feb 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, Appellate Law, Emails, Legal Technology, Louisiana Supreme Court

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A virus going around, by Raymond Ward, Louisiana Civil Appeals Blog

http://tinyurl.com/kv5owgc

There must be a virus going around. Recently the Louisiana Supreme Court and the First, Third, and Fifth Circuits have published warnings about malicious e-mails purporting to come from those courts. . . .