Cormac Moylan

I wasn’t aware of it but Monster’s database was recently hacked and confidential information about Monster’s jobseekers, such as email addressees and phone numbers, fell into the hands of phishers.
Phishing is the technical term giving to attempts to ‘withdraw’ information such as bank account numbers by using bogus email addresses and fake websites to [...]

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Dave, the Irish Developer, blogged recently about some strange going ons with his Gmail account…
I believe my Google Account was just hacked tonight. My Thunderbird was prompting me for my password saying it was invalid. So I tried to log into my Google Account, and after 5 tries the password went through and I was [...]

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I haven’t had one of these requests in a long while. Mmm, I wonder what did happen to that Nigerian King in the end?

Hello Friend,
My name is Mrs.Rosemary King I am a dying woman who has decided to donate what I have to charity through you.You may be wondering why I chose you. But [...]

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I received an email this evening from “Woolwich.co.uk” which evaded my gmail anti spam filters and informed me of the following:
We recently reviewed your account, and we suspect an unauthorized ATM based transaction. Therefore as a preventive measure we will temporary limit your access to sensitive Woolwich features. To ensure that your account is [...]

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