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SpyWareGuide http://www.spywareguide.com/product_list_full.php List of intrusive software
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse http://www.privacyrights.org/ Comprehensive Information on a variety of privacy topics
Pest Patrol – The Center for Pest Research http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/
National Cyber Alert System http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-008.html about using BCC in email
http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.htm
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/
http://www.419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm
http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml
The Inboxer Rebellion http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/
Better Business Bureau Online homepage http://www.bbbonline.org
Lookup BBB Privacy Participants http://www.bbbonline.org/consumer/pribrowse.asp
Lookup BBB Reliability Participants http://www.bbbonline.org/consumer/Relbrowse.asp
NetScams http://www.netscams.com/
ScamBusters http://www.scambusters.com/
-...and browse their back issues http://www.scambusters.org/backissues.html
Victims Against Scams http://www.victimsagainstscams.com/
Senior Investor Resource Center/Scams http://www.nasaa.org/nasaa/sirc/sirc.asp
Fraud Bureau http://www.fraudbureau.com/
SEC: How to Avoid Internet Investment Scams http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/cyberfraud.htm
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims to the Paranormal http://www.csicop.org/
Daily updates on their website, subscribe to alerts & newsletters http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email http://www.cauce.org/
http://spam.abuse.net/
http://www.telebyte.com/spamlaw/
http://www.spamreaper.com/
http://spam.getnetwise.org/
How spammers get your email address http://www.klis.com/support/kwikshield/outexpr.html
List of All Known DNS-based Spam Databases http://www.declude.com/Articles.asp?ID=97
Spam Database Lookup http://www.DNSstuff.com/ Check an IP address in multiple databases
Spam laws by state http://www.spamrecycle.com/lawintro.htm
A Guide to Combating Spam http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/SpamGuide.asp
http://spamlinks.openrbl.org/spamlinks.htm "everything you didn't want to have to know about spam"
Sites that I block in my browsers, for varying reasons:
http://www.gratisnetwork.com/
http://www.makemoneyonline.com/
Note: I started to build this after receiving one-too-many scam/phish emails requesting account info, etc, even from instititions where I had no accounts. This is to facilitate my reporting these scams to the appropriate people. I always forward the email in question to the organization in question and the general phishing resources listed at the end.
NIST Computer Security Resource Center Guide to Information Technology Security Services
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-35/NIST-SP800-35.pdf
Very good papers on security topics http://www.technicalinfo.net/papers/index.html
Identity Theft Resource Center http://www.idtheftcenter.org/index.shtml
Identity Theft http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/
Identity Theft Complaint Form https://rn.ftc.gov/dod/widtpubl$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU03
Reducing the risk and coping with the occurrence http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs17a.htm
FDIC has good downloadables http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/fighttheft/index.html
The major credit reporting agencies:
International Calling Codes and GMT offsets
United States Telephone Area Codes
Reporting Spammers
Good set of metalinks http://www.netscams.com/links.jsp
Lots of good links: http://www.microsoft.com/security/
Report Cybercrime in Virginia cybercrime@oag.state.va.us
Center for Democracy and Technology http://www.cdt.org/
Center for Security Policy http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/
Cyberstalking http://www.haltabuse.org/
Direct Marketing Assn http://www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offtelephonedave
Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams http://www.first.org/
FIRST Member Information http://www.first.org/team-info/
Freedom of Information Center http://foi.missouri.edu/
Getnetwise – Good privacy & safety site http://www.getnetwise.org/
Global Security http://www.globalsecurity.org/
Hoaxbusters (and viruses) http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
More on hoaxes & viruses http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
More on hoaxes & viruses http://www.vmyths.com/
More on hoaxes & viruses http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/virus.htm
AT&T's Privacy Bird http://privacybird.com/
Electronic Privacy Information Center http://www.epic.org/
http://www.kgb.org/kgb/glossary.html
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
Junkbusters – Telemarketing, spam, junk mail, etc http://www.junkbusters.com/
Lots of good links: http://www.microsoft.com/security/
Privacy.net - excellent information and tools http://privacy.net/
Surveillance Technology http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html
Insurance Fraud information http://www.insurancefraud.org/protect_yourself_set.html
http://www.consumerprivacyguide.org/
Computer vulnerabilities http://www.securitytracker.com/
National Security Archive http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) http://www.sans.org/aboutsans.php
SANS' Information Security Reading Room http://www.sans.org/rr/
How to Stop Porn Predators http://www.safesurf.com/newsletter/issue1101.htm
Macintosh Security http://www.securemac.com/
Maps of surveillance cameras locations in several major U. S. cities http://www.notbored.org/maps-usa.html
Privacy Activism http://www.privacyactivism.org/ Lots of good info, but not the late-breaking news
International Calling Codes and GMT offsets
United States Telephone Area Codes
Reporting Spammers
http://www.quackwatch.org/ index.html "...combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies."
Information Systems Security Association http://www.sdissa.org/index.html
Distributed Intrusion Detection System http://www.dshield.org/
Network Abuse Clearinghouse http://www.abuse.net/
Intrusion & Attack Reporting Center http://www.doshelp.com/
Distributed Server Boycott List http://dsbl.org/main
Abusive Hosts Blocking List http://www.ahbl.org/
http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.htm
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/
http://www.419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm
http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml
The Inboxer Rebellion http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/
Blacklist, blocklist primer http://www.scconsult.com/bill/dnsblhelp.html
Update to Windows operating systems http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp Monthly!
Check this site for product security updates http://secunia.com/ Secunia tracks vulnerabilities in over 4k products Product List
Symantec online security check http://www.symantec.com/securitycheck/ Weekly!
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsahome.mspx Monthly
http://www.openpgp.org/
http://www.pgp.com/
http://www.pgpi.org/
PGP 7.0 Mac User's Guide ftp://ftp.pgpi.org/pub/pgp/7.0/docs/english/PGPMacUsersGuide.pdf
Phil Zimmerman, creator of PGP http://www.philzimmerman.com/index.shtml
http://helppages.obsidian.com.au/PGPKeys
A Parent's Guide To Internet Safety http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguide.htm
Request the Newsletter from Anonymizer http://www.anonymizer.com/
Article on Cyberstalking http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_9/mcfarlane/index.html
Brochure on Cyberstalking http://www.haltabuse.org/onlinesafety.PDF
Why Windows Is A Security Nightmare http://www.techuser.net/index.php?id=47
SpyBuster http://www.nitrousonline.com/ Weekly!
SpyCop http://www.spycop.com/
SpyWareGuide http://www.spywareguide.com/product_list_full.php List of intrusive software
The Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection http://www.thei3p.org/
Institute for Security Technology Studies http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/index.htm
DOJ Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/compcrime.html
FBI Internet Fraud Complaint Center http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp
Internet Fraud Complaint Center of the FBI http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp
NIST Computer Security Division: Computer Security Resource Center http://csrc.nist.gov/
National "Do Not Call" registry http://www.donotcall.gov/Register/Reg.aspx
National Infrastructure Protection Center http://www.nipc.gov/
NSA's Security Configuration Guides http://www.nsa.gov/... for a variety of products/platforms
U. S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team http://www.us-cert.gov/
CVE – Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures http://www.cve.mitre.org/
"A list of standardized names for vulnerabilities and other information security exposures"
OVAL – Open Vulnerability Assessment Language http://oval.mitre.org/
"The common language used by security experts to discuss technical details about how to check for the presence of a vulnerability on a computer system."
ICAT Metabase – For searching CVE http://icat.nist.gov/icat.cfm
Cassandra Tool https://cassandra.cerias.purdue.edu/main/index.html
"Simplifies keeping up-to-date with vulnerabilities in the ICAT or Secunia databases."
Fairly comprehensive information on viruses http://www.unl.edu/security/viruses/
McAfee AVERT Virus Information Library http://vil.nai.com/vil/default.asp
Quickly find the date of McAffee's (Virex) latest definitions http://configuration.apple.com/configurations/......txt
The result will be a single record in the form of... idisk.mac.com/...Anti-Virus Updates/VnYYMMDD.gz
Very good resources http://anti-virus.com/
Cert Coordination Ctr. of the Software Engineering Inst. at Carnegie Mellon http://www.cert.org/
Sophos http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/
http://www.grisoft.com
http://www.scanalert.com/ Examines sites periodically for evidence of hacking
http://www.wholesecurity.com/ Provides behavior-based analysis for web site poseurs