Holiday season warnings from CERT

Christmas is coming, and along with it, holiday-themed scams, spam and malware. It’s a time for families to come together and celebrate, but it’s also a time to be wary and vigilant.

CERT has provided a handy set of guidelines and tools you can use to avoid being the recipient of one of these unwanted ‘gifts’.

About jrivett

Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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