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Murray isn’t going to forward email chain letters and warnings anymore.  Just because it is easy to send out thousands of words to thousands of people doesn’t mean that he is going to do it. This week we are going to to talk about what kinds of content to avoid sending in emails. 
So Murray and [...]

Antivirus 2009 certainly looks like the real thing. Very well done screen warnings of virus and trojans, which are false, remember not to click on any of these pop-ups. 
Researchers at TrendLabs have discovered a new set of rogue antivirus software circulating in the wild. Based on initial analysis, these threats arrive mainly via spammed email [...]

Fall brings about lots of competition for student dollars among electronic manufacturers. We talked about the difference between Mac and PC for the student. Joe Robinson of Summit Nettrekker in Breckenridge said that the Mac, and Joe has lots of experience with student computing, works well in grade school and for those going on into [...]

Black Hat just ended and what once started as a super secret conference well attended by law enforcement agents in disguise now has the chief of Cyber Security for Homeland Security as the keynote speaker, the sister convention is DEFCON (which comes from the term for Defense readiness Condition for the Military) is going on [...]