WOT (Web of Trust) is a free Internet security addon for Firefox and Internet Explorer that is designed to warn you about online scams and risky websites that try to deliver malware or send spam. Here’s what they say about themselves: WOT… is a community whose members exchange knowledge of websites: Can they be trusted? [...]
I recently stumbled across Bleeping Computer, a community-based computer support web site. Of the many things you can find here, one very useful page concerns virus, spyware, and malware removal. I haven’t had the need to try out any of their receipes, but I really like the idea. It’s exactly the sort of thing I’ve [...]
Computer security is a major support pillar of personal data privacy. The folks over at Mahalo (self-described as “a human-powered search engine built collaboratively by a team of editors and a community of dedicated users”) have a useful resource page on computer security. For our purposes, I think this page comes up a little short. [...]
Although ordinary people are targets of cybercrime, the US and other countries are also targets. On Friday, May 29th, President Obama talked publicly about the costs of cybercrime at a national level: …in the last two years alone, cyber thieves have cost Americans more than $8 billion and that last year worldwide they stole data [...]