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Security Warnings Should Be Fewer but Better, Researchers Say

08

Jan

2014

A team of researchers from Cambridge University have conducted a study on the effectiveness of security warnings. Theyve determined that warnings should be fewer than they currently are, but they should be more concrete. Experts have tried to find out how to formulate a warning in order to ensure that users…

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Skype Users Targeted with Ransomware and Click Fraud

08

Oct

2012

The infection that’s still spreading across users of Skype has taken an interesting twist: ransomware and click fraud. Skype users tempted to follow the latest set of infection links will end up with a zipfile on their PC. Here’s an example of the rogue links still being pinged around: Clicking the link will download a […]

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No, Microsoft will not give you 1 million dollars

21

Dec

2011

No, no matter how good the document is looking, Microsoft will not give you any money, because there is no such thing as a Microsoft lottery. Of course, the same applies to Nokia and AOL Online. In the last few days we have seen a large amounts of emails with a size of 106KB […]

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