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"Hack Facebook" Site Hacks You Instead! On Blog Spam and SMS Scams 7 Aug 2013 | 09:11 pm
Spammers will do anything to drive traffic to their sites, from sending unsolicited e-mail to posting links on Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. They even try to leave spammy comments on popular news s...
"Garcinia Cambogia" Spam on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Tumblr 28 Jun 2013 | 09:38 pm
Janne Ahlberg and Graham Cluley have reported on the latest round of diet drug spam being advertised on sites like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Tumblr. Sites involved with this spam campaign pur...
Camino Canceled: Mac Browser Calls It Quits 28 Jun 2013 | 08:53 pm
The developers of Camino, a Mac-exclusive Web browser that has been around since 2002, has announced that the browser has reached its end of life. Camino was the last relatively popular browser to su...
Windows XP Death Watch: 365 Days Remaining 17 Apr 2013 | 04:18 pm
The XPocalypse cometh? Let's hope not, but be prepared just in case. There's just one year left until Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows XP security updates. Microsoft has announced no plans to cha...
Apple Shocks Security World with Safari 5.1.8 for Snow Leopard 18 Mar 2013 | 07:50 pm
In my latest article for The Mac Security Blog, I wrote about the surprise release of Safari 5.1.8 for Snow Leopard. Apple silently included the Safari update as part of Security Update 2003-001. Pri...
Apple Releases Java 6u39 (and 41, and 43) for Snow Leopard; Still No Safari Patches 18 Mar 2013 | 06:58 pm
On February 1, Apple released Java 6 Update 39 for Snow Leopard users as "Java for Mac OS X v10.6 Update 12." Ironically, even though Apple continues to update this third-party component, Apple conti...
Hacked E-mails and Web Sites Pushing Weight Loss Drug Spam, Round 2 19 Jan 2013 | 07:48 pm
Six months ago, in July 2012, I wrote about "Hacked E-mails and Web Sites Pushing Weight Loss Drug Spam." Now in January 2013, hackers and scammers are up to the same tricks. (If you believe you may...
Is Apple Still Releasing Snow Leopard Updates? 8 Jan 2013 | 04:18 am
Is Apple still releasing security updates for Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard? Oddly, the answer isn't a simple yes or no. In the past, Apple typically released security updates only for the current and ...
Get Windows 8 Pro for $39.99 by January 31 8 Jan 2013 | 03:57 am
Do you still have Windows XP on your computer? Unless you have plans to replace that computer within the next 15 months, now's a good time to upgrade your operating system. Until January 31, 2013, Mi...
What to Do if Your Mac Can't Run Mountain Lion 8 Jan 2013 | 03:54 am
With each successive version of Apple's Mac OS X operating system, more Mac hardware gets left behind. The recent release of OS X Mountain Lion (v10.8) is no exception. There are some good reasons wh...
