The Good In my youth, Lady Allen of Hurford, a prominent British landscape architect and president of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, built Adventure Playgrounds out of the destruction of World War II. The playgrounds encouraged kids to take risks and get dirty. My folks built playgrounds too, and on a US visit they [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
The Good, The Bad & The Unsettling
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Who Can You Trust? Scareware Creates ‘Live Tech Chat’ Scam
Here’s a good reason to use the Millennium Group instead of some online support system. A new scareware variant known as “Security Master AV” has taken intimidation techniques to a new level. Now scareware cybercriminals masks themselves as an online support system, and one that appears wholly functional. Now you can innocently find technical online support for your computer problems [...]
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Scareware Fakes Out Firefox Users
If you use Mozilla’s Firefox please read this article announcing the Scareware implant on Firefox Updates” and how it uses a fake copy of the “Firefox Updated” page to trick users into installing a rogue antivirus program. Ah, will it ever end?
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