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Claudia Natoli thought she was on to a good thing - so good that when she inquired about a luxury four-bedroom rental villa in Bali, she emailed the owner and asked: ''What's the catch?'' He had offered an attractive discount on the original price and was so obliging, he even helped organise a fully catered pre-wedding party - including drinks, food and waiters - that she planned to host at the property. The deal was too good to be true. Hackers had intercepted her initial email, posed as the accommodation owner and lured her into making a bogus booking. Natoli is among scores of tourists who have been snared in a worldwide travel scam that targets property owners who advertise their rentals on websites including HomeAway, VRBO and FlipKey, which is mostly owned by TripAdvisor. In nearly every case, the victim arrives in paradise only to discover the communication had been faked, the genuine owner has never heard of them and the accommodation is booked out - leaving them broke and stranded. Last week, NSW Fair Trading confirmed it had received complaints about the scam and encouraged others to come forward and lodge a formal complaint. Consumer Affairs Victoria warned that booking overseas private accommodation online was ''much riskier'' than dealing directly with a hotel or travel agent. Reports first surfaced about the multimillion-dollar global swindle in September 2010. Since then, the internet has been awash with blogs and forums about the problem. In the past 12 months, travellers appear to have been increasingly targeted, with luxury Balinese properties used as bait. Travellers' contact details and inquiries are initially netted either by ''phishing'' or acquiring information about a property owner's genuine email account through false advertisements on reputable websites. Souce: http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/8555018/Travellers-stranded-by-phishing-scam Discusses: http://www.zotero.org/message/viewdiscussion/182805

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You've got tech questions, we've found the answers. We help you make the most of your technology by answering your thorniest tech questions. So if you're wondering what to buy, how to plug it in, or how to fix it, we can help. Can Facebook videos be a scam? Q. I tried to watch a video on Facebook, but it didn't work. It made me install a new driver and then still didn't play the video. What gives? A. I doubt that was a real video at all. This is a scam that is common on Facebook. The post looks like a really interesting or scandalous video. When you click it, it asks you to install a driver to watch it. What you actually download is usually a junk file or a virus. When you try to install the "driver," you share the scam video with all your friends so they'll be tricked. When you see a video on Facebook, do a search for the video on YouTube or Google. If you can't find the video, it's probably a scam. You can also see if the scam has been reported on sites like Facecrooks and Snopes. Remove a stubborn virus Q. I have a virus that my regular anti-virus software can't remove. How can I get rid of it? A. To start, make sure your anti-virus software is up to date. Without regular updates, your anti-virus can miss the latest threats. Now, start your computer in Safe Mode - you can do this by pressing and holding F8 during startup. Run the scan again to see if the program catches the virus. If it doesn't, try a scan with another program, like MalwareBytes. If that doesn't work, you might have to use a last-ditch virus remover like AVG's Rescue CD. If none of these solutions work, you will need to wipe the hard drive and reinstall Windows. Article Site: https://twitter.com/Abney_and_Assoc Forum Site: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1163149-abney-associates-privacy-policy

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"We are forever trying to train people to have healthier lifestyles: eat better, exercise more, whatever," Schneier writes in a wonderfully entertaining blog post. "And people are forever ignoring the lessons. One basic reason is psychological: we just aren't very good at trading off immediate gratification for long-term benefit. A healthier you is an abstract eventually; sitting in front of the television all afternoon with a McDonald's Super Monster Meal sounds really good right now." "Similarly, computer security is an abstract benefit that gets in the way of enjoying the internet. Good practices might protect me from a theoretical attack at some time in the future, but they're a lot of bother right now and I have more fun things to think about. This is the same trick Facebook uses to get people to give away their privacy; no one reads through new privacy policies; it's much easier to just click "OK" and start chatting with your friends. In short: security is never salient." Schneier expands his ideas by looking at areas where awareness training or education initiatives work (driving, HIV prevention) and where they fail (training the general public to wash their hands, make drug decisions at a pharmacy, food safety). He summarises the obstacles in the path of effective security training. "The threats change constantly, the likelihood of failure is low, and there is enough complexity that it's hard for people to understand how to connect their behavior to eventual outcomes. So they turn to folk remedies that, while simple, don't really address the threats. "We should stop trying to teach expertise, and pick a few simple metaphors of security and train people to make decisions using those metaphors," Schneier concludes, adding that another problem is that "computer security is often only as strong as the weakest link". Read more: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/23/security_awareness_training/ Video Related: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzbyhi_compute

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En välbekant bluff har återuppstått i Washington Parish, och en Bogalusa bosatt är varning människor inte att falla för den. Jimmy Underwood sade han nyligen fick ett samtal från en person med utländsk brytning, som berättade för honom hade han vunnit $2,5 miljoner och att någon skulle komma från Lafayette på eftermiddagen att presentera honom med sina vinster. Dock Underwood var misstänksam och "typ av tänkte att det var en bluff rätt utanför bat," han låter anroparen fortsätta. Underwood gavs ett spårningsnummer, tillgång kodnummer och säkerhet kodnummer och tillsagd att gå till en butik för att få en grön Dot MoneyPack kort och lägga till $1.000 i den. Uppringaren sa utmärkelsen $2,5 miljoner var juridiska, hade godkänts av den federala regeringen, och att alla skatter hade tagits. Han försett Underwood med ett telefonnummer och berättade för honom att kalla det och be om Jimmy White efter han hade kortet. Underwood var nära en Walgreens, så han gick in och ifyllt manager på telefonsamtalet. Chefen sa att det var en bluff, att den som ringt var sannolikt från Jamaica, och att någon annan hade kommit att rapportera samma sak. Ungefär 10 minuter senare ringde ringer Underwood igen, frågar varför han inte hade kallas tillbaka. Underwood sa till honom att det var en bluff och att det inte var berättigat. Anroparen försäkrade honom var det inte ett skämt, men Underwood berättade för honom att ge pengar till någon annan. Jag sa, "Om jag vann pengar, hur kommer jag behöva betala $1,000?" " Underwood fick veta att han inte skulle verkligen att lägga några pengar, eftersom han skulle få $1000 tillbaka i form av ett presentkort. Related Article: http://abneyassociatesclausen.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/abney-and-associates-reviews-on-cyber-war-warning-microsoft-scheurt-e-mail-snooping-google/ Related Discussion: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/olmdiscussion/thread/3ff51444-251e-48c3-ad19-0b6872

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