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With today’s economy a lot of us are looking online for ways to make some extra cash. Some of us harbor hopes of finding an opportunity that allows us to work from home and rake in piles of money for very little effort

Every year hundreds of thousands of computers are stolen. Granted, not all of us are storing literary works of art, but most of us are keeping something that we value on our computers.

The upcoming income tax season is another prime opportunity for scam artists to ply their trade. In Canada scammers are sending out emails purporting to be from Canada Revenue Agency, and good news: You have a refund!

The recent economic downturn has meant very hard times for a lot of people. With so many people out of work and/or out of money, the stage has been set for a proliferation of fraudulent Internet schemes.

Social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter are designed to allow you to share information such as who you are and what you’re doing. But users should consider who is privy to their posts.

There are a few ways that someone can gain unauthorized access to your email account. Possibly your password is too simple and someone can guess it. Or your password is great but someone can guess the answer to your password reset question.

Phishing involves a criminal sending out legitimate-looking e-mails to try to get the recipients to hand over personal and financial information. It usually involves the victim clicking on a link that takes them to a bogus website which looks very much like the legitimate site.

Firesheep lets you hijack other people’s insecure social network connections.  If someone uses a public WiFi connection to log onto Facebook et al., anyone using Firesheep can capture and display their authentication information.

Personal data is a valuable commodity in the cyber criminal underground economy. Annually hundreds of billions of dollars are lost by companies all around the world due to identity theft. It is estimated that 1 out of every 10 Americans has already been a victim of ID theft.

A house in Oshawa was burgled, leaving a mother and daughter heartbroken. Unforunately the thieves took a box that contained irreplaceable memorabilia of their dear departed husband and father.