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HQ Happenings
(IIa wins open source work, Intranet survey results, IIa values campaign)

Project Highlights
(Cannon, Eglin, Goddard, Langley, SAIN)

Working at IIa
(How does my money work?, Employee awards, About that time sheet, Listen up)

About IIa Staff
(Awards & honors, Milestones, Who's new, Family news)

Community Involvement

IIa Corporate
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IIa Pay Schedule
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InfoEdge Archive
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Watch out for These Stealthy Hacker Tricks

Want the lowdown on the latest cybertricks? Here are a few things to watch out for:

•  Phishing. When you get an e-mail from “your bank” asking for information—watch out. Banks don’t send out e-mails asking for information. Those tricky hackers are sending e-mails and merely posing as your bank. The e-mails include links where you are asked to provide information such as passwords and personal data. Never go to a web site and provide this information when asked—the hackers set up fake sites replete with logos to fool the unwary.

•  Pharming. Ugh. Viruses again. This time they’re attached to e-mails and Web sites that drop software onto your computer. The software then monitors your keystrokes, picking up on—you guessed it—passwords you use to access your accounts, etc., on financial web sites.

•  Bot Networks. These are remote control programs that hackers deposit onto PCs. Then the remote control is used to send out spam and viruses.

•  Wi-Phishing. Here our crooked friends are setting up fake wireless networks. Why? They’re hoping you’ll use them to connect to the Web—then they monitor what you do and where you go and steal your identity and passwords.

•  Typosquatting. Hackers set up sites designed to take advantage of people making typos. When you accidentally typo the name of a legitimate site and land on one of the “illegitimate” sites, computers are either infected with viruses or are taken over and turned into bots.

—adapted from “Hacker Hunters,” by Brian Grow, in BusinessWeek.