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Adwords Phishing Attempt

If you advertise on Google, read this please.

A client received an email that appeared to be from Google Adwords saying that her campaigns had been stopped and it had a link to follow so she could review the issues.

The link went to google-uki.com.  I could easily see that since I have my email program set [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]