Microsoft is alerting consumers about scams that are currently going on in countries such as the United States, the UK, Ireland and Canada. The scams are designed to make potential victims feel insecure about their computer’s security. They then trick people into giving them access to different things that result in theft, computer problems or loss of money.

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Three brothers were convicted in a London court for their parts in a fraud operation that revolved around stealing credit and debit card numbers and making fake cards to use them with. Ahmed Charmaga received 4 and a half years in prison, while his brothers Mahmoud and Mohammed received 5 and 2 and a half more »

Omar Khan, an 18-year-old student from Coto de Caza, California attempted to pull a move straight from the movie War Games. And I am not referring to the whole “lets play Global Thermonuclear War” incident, but instead the hacking into his schools computer to change his failing grades to passing grades. Mr. Kahn was “allegedly” changing his D’s and F’s to something a little more positive, A’s. Wow, talk about an improvement, you would think he would have settled to at least pass and just move them up to a C in an effort to avoid detection. But instead he went all the way up, because it seems his intention was not only to avoid failing and the potential summer school, but to get into a good college. I can only assume that he would have continued to hack his grades after he started college as well.