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The Good, The Bad & The Unsettling

By Jinx | Published: August 24, 2010
 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 [...]
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Who Can You Trust? Scareware Creates ‘Live Tech Chat’ Scam

By Jinx | Published: August 11, 2010
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

By Jinx | Published: August 11, 2010
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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