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"As Apple products grow in popularity, they're increasingly attractive targets to the bad guys. Just check out the short history of Mac malware 1982-2011 to see what the hackers are up to. "

"The popularity of TinyURL provides fraudsters with a golden opportunity to exploit the service. Attackers can take advantage of the system to make phishing URLs less suspicious to anti-phishing detection, since the shortened form of the phishing URLs will be totally unrelated to the targeted brands/websites. In a phishing scenario, this service is problematic to the recipients of phishing emails because this makes it difficult to mouse over a link and see exactly where it's going."

"When hackers do cyber-battle, there isn't much to see. Maybe you'll wind up on a crashed website, but the real carnage is happening behind the scenes, perpetrated by a diffuse army of computers a world away. This is what it looks like."

"Chances are that in the past week you've received an e-mail in your inbox that pretends to be from your bank, e-commerce vendor, or other on-line site. ...  But how can you tell the difference? Well that's what the Phishing IQ test is all about - give it a try."

Website safety/security check.  Norton supplies a webcheck site. This site is free to use and you do not need to have Norton Security software installed. Results: Safe; Untested; Caution and Warning.

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