Posts made in March, 2011
Play.com Announce Security Breach
All Play.com customers received an urgent email notification on 21st March 2011. The email notified all customers of a potential security breach into Plays email database and warned all customers to be vigilant of email spamming and Phishing Scams. The urgent message was sent after certain Play.com customers reported spam emails to accounts which were only used for Play.com. Thanks to these fast acting customers, Play.com were able to get a mass email out to all customers to combat this security breach. In the urgent emails sent out by the customer service team, it was made clear that the security breach had only effected their newsletter database. This meant that all...
Read MoreIdentifying and Avoiding Email Scams
The Internet is one of the most revolutionary creations in information technology. Businesses, students, doctors, teachers and many more, all benefit from the advantages of the world-wide web on a daily basis. Unfortunately (and just like anything else) where others earn an honest living and reputation, there will always be those who seek to take advantage of these. Internet scamming is becoming more an more popular as the days fly by and because of this, too many people are losing the confidence to use and trust the Internet. The truth is that it’s actually incredibly easy to identify legitimate emails from the fraudulent emails (yes…really)....
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