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Towerwall Information Security Update Vol 13.78 - 3 ways to make your Outlook.com account safer

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Michelle Drolet

3 ways to make your Outlook.com account safer by John Hawes

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Dealing with Phishing Messages

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Michelle Drolet

According to the article in Dark Reading, Study: Phishing Messages Elude Filters, Frequently Hit Untrained Users, many people are still being tripped up by phishing emails. The article summarizes the findings of a survey that was conducted at the Black Hat USA security conference held in July 2012. Of the 250 conference attendees that were polled, 69% said that phishing messages get past spam filters and into users’ inboxes on a weekly basis. Over 25% indicated that top executives and otherfalse

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Microsoft Windows Update emails try to steal your Gmail, Yahoo, AOL passwords...

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Michelle Drolet

Beware any emails which claim to come from privacy@microsoft.com - it could be that you're being targeted in an attack designed to steal your AOL, Gmail, Yahoo or Windows Live password. At first glance, if you don't look too carefully, the emails entitled "Microsoft Windows Update" may appear harmless enough. But the grammatical errors and occasional odd language should raise alarms bells that the emails may not really be from Microsoft. Dear Windows User, It has come to our attention thatfalse

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