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Permanent Fund Corp. faces 1,000 attempts daily to get past computer security – Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

About 1,000 times a day, someone somewhere makes a computerized attempt to get access to the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation computer system to see what’s on the inside. On some days, there are 10,000 or 12,000 attempts to get beyond the security system …
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What is the difference between spam, malware and phishing? – Daily Telegraph

According to Sophos’s annual Internet Security Threat Report, malware attacks, phishing and spam reports, are all on the rise across social networks. Sophos analysts define the terms in the following ways: A malware attack is a piece of malicious …
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Is Citi Mortgage phishing? – DAILY KOS

I share a home with my SO, who is, to be frank, an easy mark for “free” and other greatly discounted offers. She never shops without coupons, especially when she can take them where they are being doubled or tripled. She’s always looking for a “good deal …
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2011: The Year of the Tablet-Apple’s Tablet (And Analyst Notes About It) (John Paczkowski/Digital Daily)

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
2011: The Year of the Tablet-Apple’s Tablet (And Analyst Notes About It)  —  Much as they were in 2010, tablet sales will be a high point of 2011-but even more so.  According to Caris & Co. analyst Robert Cihra, tablet sales will more than triple, rising 226 percent to 54 million units.

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