Some stats on Internet Crime
In 2009 the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) Web site received 336,655 complaint submissions. This was a 22.3% increase over 2008. The total dollar loss from all referred cases was $559.7 million with a median dollar loss of $575. One of the more intriguing scams of 2009 was the “Hitman Scam,” a type...
The tricks hackers use, and what you can do to foil them.
Some hackers claim they can teach a monkey how to hack in a couple of hours. We asked two hackers, Syke and Optyx (at their request, we are using their hacking pseudonyms rather than their real names), to give us non-simian reporters a demonstration.
What we got was a sometimes-frightening view of how easily nearly anyone's...
Central and South American Countries Swamped with Malware
According to a latest study by the security firm Zscaler, Central and South American countries such as Argentina and Honduras are spreading and hosting malware at a higher percentage of their total Internet traffic compared to other countries. Zscaler has prepared the first-quarter “State of the Web” report and states that it has analyzed every...
Sleep! I love it & why don’t I ever get enough?
Sleep… zzz, zzz…. why does it seem to me that on the night’s when I feel most tired, and seem to need sleep the most – that those are the nights I sleep the worst, and end up getting up early? A recent study says that people who sleep less than six hours a night...