Discord friend gives you $50 steamcommunity card “$50! Hell yes” 🤑 *click* *login* “Gimme gemme gimme!” 🤑 “Huh? I’ve been hacked? How did that happen?” Obviousy it’s a scam! People, especially not strangers, or casuals haven’t spoken too in ten years don’t just pop up and give you $50! Apparently this has been around for […]
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WORM, the first digital world war, by Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down. Blurb The Conficker worm infected its first computer in November 2008 and within a month had infiltrated 1.5 million machines in 195 countries. Banks, telecommunications companies and critical government networks – including the British Parliament and the French and German military
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Making news across Twitter and the world at the moment is the latest government secret revealed by ex-NSA contractor and whistle-blower Edward Snowden, though the altogether sinister #RSA trend, is actually two news items running in parallel. The first is the unbelievable (therefore true) and explosive leak that the NSA paid RSA $10 million to
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Keeping your mailbox clean 1) Always have an up-to-date anti-virus package and ideally use at least one spam filter. 2) Don’t accept mail with attachments even from relatives if you can help it (unless you are specifically expecting something) – and not ever from strangers! 3) Use different emails as appropriate: One for family and
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