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• Web TV shows porn, without the sex
The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age." "People are getting more blase about porn, I don't think there's any question about that," Lane said. "I think the Internet has played a huge role in that, it sort of lowers everybody's threshold." PG ...
• Paying at the pump just got more risky
You just run it through the skimmer and it has all the information right there in plain text,” says former White House cyber security advisor Howard Schmidt. “It’s very easy to imprint that data on another magnetic strip and use it somewhere ...
• ConsumerMan: Beware Web's 'scareware'
Warning: Cyber thieves are using fake security alerts to scare you into buying their worthless software. Security experts call it “scareware,” and it’s a growing problem. These bogus warning messages are designed to look exactly like the real ...
• Stopping a cyber attack before it begins
A new program aims to put the squeeze on malicious software that can disable, infiltrate or transform a computer system into an unwitting zombie — before the cyber attack ever materializes. Instead of studying the signatures of software gone bad ...
• Cleaning out your digital dirt
Gammel believes in burying the Internet skeletons in positive cyber dust. “Once the less savory items are pushed off your first page of ego search results on Google, you'll be fine with most people,” he notes. “That's why you have to post more ...