If we were to look at pure computer, the IBM PC was hardly the first … The first virus in the wild was Elk Cloner and was written in 1981 to attack Apple’s DOS 3.3 OS. The term virus was coined in 1984 by Fred Cohen. However, the first PC virus did …
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Have you ever received an email pretending to be a bank or credit card company? A California man received a sizable prison sentence today for sending those emails and bilking victims out of their money. That Tien Truong Nguyen, age 34, was sentenced today …
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That Tien Truong Nguyen, age 34, was sentenced today for his role in designing websites to mock financial institutions and using those sites to scam over 38,000 victims. He worked with Romanian scammers to help drive people to the sites through email …
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Los Angeles native Kenneth Joseph Lucas II, 27, was sentenced to 13 years in jail for operating an international bank phishing scam and a marijuana grow house. According to PC World , Lucas was one of the brains behind 2009’s Phish Phry, in which he …
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