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Goldsborough, Reid – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
Identity theft via bogus e-mail links, or "phishing," is escalating, with criminals becoming ever more brazen and sophisticated in their online schemes to trick people into revealing their personal information. People do get scammed. Phishing messages that appear to be sent by trusted companies dupe 3 percent of the people who receive…
Descriptors: Credit (Finance), Internet, Computer Security, Crime Prevention
Goldsborough, Reid – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
There's no question about it: Spam is a scourge. This ever-increasing torrent of unsolicited commercial mass e-mail saps productivity and, for some, threatens the very viability of e-mail. The battle against spam, unfortunately, is creating problems of its own, with people sometimes unable to send legitimate e-mail and other times unable to…
Descriptors: Internet, Electronic Mail, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Security
Goldsborough, Reid – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
What's the worst thing that can happen to your computer? Worse than a hard disk crash, virus infection, spam assault, denial-of-service attack, hacker take-over, fire, flood, or other human, mechanical or natural disaster is a faulty backup when you really need it. If the computer blows up, as long as your data is backed up securely, you can…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Computer Storage Devices, Computers, Internet
