By Online Security Authority on Nov 11, 2011 in Home PC Security | 0 Comments
We hope you’ve enjoyed our look at various online fraud techniques used by the unscrupulous. You can find the previous two entries here and here. Our final post will dive into one of the biggest hubs for rip-offs and scams online, eBay. Since its inception, people have taken advantage of trusting buyers on eBay and other auction sites. We’re going to highlight some of the sure signs of potential eBay fraud and how to dodge it.
By OSAblogger on Jul 23, 2009 in Data Security | 0 Comments
SiteLine is a specialized bundle of online tools that work with non-geographic telephone numbers (e.g. 0845 numbers, 03 numbers etc.) to help companies maximize their web sales and inquiries.
By Online Security Authority on Jul 22, 2009 in Teen Guidelines | 0 Comments
The largest online bookstore spearheading the resurgence of ebooks with its own kingpin ebook reader, isn’t that the perfect union? That was the original Kindle which took the world of reading by storm and we generally agreed that that was the peak of perfection. But no, not quite, we now have the Kindle plus-plus. Yes, [...]
By OSAblogger on Apr 30, 2009 in Shopping Security | 1 Comment
A classic example of this would be about a neighbor whose company declared bankruptcy and was regarded as one of the biggest financial institution in the country due to heavy effects of recession. He was in a vertigo before and he didn’t know what to do. He is still 20 years away from retirement and this is the fate that he had already experienced until one day…
By Online Security Authority on Apr 30, 2009 in Thoughts on Security | 2 Comments
Think back for a minute to some of those forum rule thingies that you have to accept before you can join…or the eBay rule thingies that you had to click accept on…nobody reads those, do they? Nope! Well each one of those has standard language in it that allows the provider to collect information and, in some cases publish or share it with third parties at will. It is scary that we just blindly accept these on a daily basis and keep going…