Has your e-mail password been compromised? Check this out.

From friend Arthur:

Were you caught up in all the recent databases that were compromised (Adobe, Stratfor, Gawker, Yahoo!, Pixel Federation and Sony)? There's a site where you can check your email address(es) to see, since the big companies aren't doing much to help their customers. http://haveibeenpwned.com

Have I been pwned? allows you to search across multiple data breaches to see if your email addresses has been compromised.

NACHA fraudulent e-mail

The Electronic Payments Association has recently issued on their website a warning that fraudulent emails are being sent out in their name. Our office has been getting a bunch of these lately (I had three in my in-box this morning).

It goes without saying, *don’t* open the .exe file that is embedded in the email. Clearly, they’re phishing.

This, BTW, is a variation of a problem that's been going on for nearly a month.

More from NACHA (a legitimate organization).

Netiquette

On Friday, September 12th at 10:30 - 11:30
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Search Engine Use

From Pew/Internet. "The percentage of internet users who use search engines on a typical day has been steadily rising from about one-third of all users in 2002, to a new high of just under one-half (49%). With this increase, the number of those using a search engine on a typical day is pulling ever closer to the 60% of internet users who use email, arguably the Internet's all-time killer app, on a typical day."