The Guardian reports on spyware making its way through the world of Apple Macs. This stuff hides behind screen savers. As the screen savers install, they download malware which opens ports and ships personal information out the back of the computers. The intent does appears to be neither stealing identities nor creating botnets, but, rather, […]
Almost everyone has gotten a pop-up somewhere along the line warning us that our computers may be at risk. Then, with a little investigation, we find that our computers are not at risk but our wallets are. If we accept the offer that the pop-up beckons us to, we get nothing, except possibly more ads […]
Ads. They’ve been part of our lives for years now. Web ads have evolved since the web became commercial. From Text ads to popups, overlays, javascript and cool little flash pages. Ads are all over sites and can be either non-obtrusive, or very annoying. Last week I wrote an article about a Match.com advertisement where […]