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Emailing Information Securely

I read this in a LoJack for Laptops newsletter:

Avoid sending tax documents by email, even to your spouse-mail them instead
You’re going to send tax documents by email anyway, aren’t you? OK, then at least encrypt and/or password protect those files

Cute.  But how do you send emails encrypted?   Assuming that most people use Outlook, here’s an [...]

Stupid spam of the day

Here’s one of the dumbest spams I’ve seen today–with the most glaring errors in red.  I didn’t bother to point out the grammatical errors.

Dear Valued Customer : We are unable to active  your account because we have upgraded our online service, we are sorry for that but you have to reactive your Chase [...]

About Passwords

How and why to create a secure [...]

Faked Emails & Text View

An advantage to setting up your mail program, such as Outlook, to view text only, no HTML, is that you can more easily spot  fraudulent emails.

I received an email that said it was from Bank of America, but since I always view the text version, I saw that the email was really from:

From: “Bank of [...]

Is Your AntiVirus Working?

Norton Internet Security’s scheduling feature conflicts sometimes with Window’s Scheduling [...]