Email Spam and PhishingWritten by Radha Khalsa
It seems like volume of email spam has doubled in last month. Increasingly, we receive daily emails for better mortgage rates, pharmaceutical discounts, and offers to enlarge body parts we don’t even have.The next generation of sophisticated tools is available to email spammers. Hidden code can be embedded into email allowing sender to track it. A “spam beacon” lets sender know that this is a valid, live, email address. The sender can also tell if you’ve opened email before you tossed it. “Nearly half of all spam is bugged with so-called "spam beacons" for tracking users who open junk mail, said e-mail filtering firm MX.” The latest email scams have also evolved. The newest scams are called phishing attacks. Spammers copy and paste web coding, making their email message appear to be official. They provide links to “look alike” websites where they try to trick you into revealing your personal financial information, by asking you to update an account such as Ebay, PayPal or CitiBank (or other well known entities). Phishing attacks are successful 5% of time.
| | Distance LearningWritten by Radha Khalsa
The internet have spurred a revolution in education. Getting a degree is not as hard as it used to be. Those Universities that adapt are going to see addition enrollment through internet. It is now possible to live in a remote area of world and still work towards a degree. This will greatly affect working adults, seniors and disabled.There are more than 23 million people pursing continuing education accounting for !5% of all higher education. Anyone with a moderate level of computer skills and an online connection can enroll. Websites like www.classesusa.com have links to 3,000 credit and non-credit courses. The advantages to online enrollment include ability to attend classes and study at your convenience. Pursuing higher education no longer interferes with your career.
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