Computer virus fraud warning for Wakefield residents

FRAUDSTERS are leaving elderly of us across the city with computer viruses and hefty repair bills.

Pensioners have reported getting phonephone calls from of us claiming to be Microsoft staff who have identified faults with their computers.

The con artists then offer bogus recommendation over the phone, tricking their victim into allowing them access to private files.

They then demand money for finishing up a “repair” once they need terribly merely infected their victim’s computer with a virus.

Computer repair specialists say they have been receiving up to thirty infected systems a month all of that are victims of the scam.

Stuart Ward, of Wabsys, in Horbury Bridge, said most of these customers required repairs costing a minimum of £65.

Facebook sued over claims it tracks users' activity

FACEBOOK is being sued by a bunch of users over claims it tracks their on-line activity after they close.

The claims were exposed by an Australian technology blogger, Nik Cubrilovic, who conducted tests that exposed that when users log off, the positioning does not delete tracking ''cookies'' but modifies them, keeping information which can establish users as they surf cyberspace.

The company has told users cookie files place in on their computers to trace interactions with Facebook applications and websites are removed once they close, in step with a criticism inside the US federal court in San Jose, California. Facebook admitted last week that the cookies track web activity when users close, in step with the suit.

Dumped computers exploited in overseas fraud

CRIMINAL networks are feeding off Australians' lust for complete fresh technology by skimming data from computers dumped in Africa and Asia - and using it for blackmail, fraud and identity theft.
They will pay the most quantity as $200 on the black marketplace for discarded computer exhausting drives, that they mine for bank details, mastercard numbers and account passwords.
These exhausting drives are among the mountains of electronic waste earmarked for recycling here. Instead, they are illegally shipped to developing countries by operators seeking larger profits.
At an analogous time, quite 230 million things of e-waste - from televisions to computers - are buried in native landfill once a year, creating a toxic pollution draw back. Others are being resold with confidential data intact, creating opportunities for fraud in Australia.