Phishing
Google Sites sending spam as CAPTCHA gets pwned
By: Davey Winder
According to the latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report, the Google Sites CAPTCHA spambot defences have been compromised by spammers...
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By: Davey Winder
According to the latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report, the Google Sites CAPTCHA spambot defences have been compromised by spammers...
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F****** Microsoft and that W***** George Bush help boost spam traffic
By: Davey Winder
The cybercriminal gangs that control the Rustock Botnet have enlisted the help of George Bush, Microsoft, Paris Hilton, Spongebob and some choice expletives in order to push its share of global spam traffic up by 21.5 percent in the last month. So why am I trying to suppress a giggle?
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By: Davey Winder
The cybercriminal gangs that control the Rustock Botnet have enlisted the help of George Bush, Microsoft, Paris Hilton, Spongebob and some choice expletives in order to push its share of global spam traffic up by 21.5 percent in the last month. So why am I trying to suppress a giggle?
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10 million zombies go after Google and Microsoft users brains
By: Davey Winder
No longer the stuff of low-budget movies, zombies are invading the Internet: around 10 million of them in the last three months alone. The horror is revealed in a new report which shows that Google Adwords and Microsoft users brains are amongst the most sought after zombie food...
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By: Davey Winder
No longer the stuff of low-budget movies, zombies are invading the Internet: around 10 million of them in the last three months alone. The horror is revealed in a new report which shows that Google Adwords and Microsoft users brains are amongst the most sought after zombie food...
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Phishing up 180 percent in six months
By: Davey Winder
According to APACS, the UK payments association, the number of people banking online has risen by 505 percent in the last seven years. However, in just the last six months alone the number of reported phishing incidents has risen by 180 percent in the UK.
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By: Davey Winder
According to APACS, the UK payments association, the number of people banking online has risen by 505 percent in the last seven years. However, in just the last six months alone the number of reported phishing incidents has risen by 180 percent in the UK.
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iPhone Mail and Safari bug helps phishing attacks
By: Stephen Withers
An unpatched vulnerability in the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications helps conceal phishing attacks, according to a high profile security researcher who specialises in finding flaws in widely used software. Aviv Raff has previously identified security flaws in software from Apple, Microsoft, Google and other vendors.
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By: Stephen Withers
An unpatched vulnerability in the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications helps conceal phishing attacks, according to a high profile security researcher who specialises in finding flaws in widely used software. Aviv Raff has previously identified security flaws in software from Apple, Microsoft, Google and other vendors.
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McAfee global S.P.A.M. experiment concludes that spam will never go away
By: Davey Winder
McAfee has today published the results from its 'Spammed Persistently All Month' experiment, which saw people from 10 countries surf the web unprotected for a whole month. What they encountered is disturbing to say the least...
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By: Davey Winder
McAfee has today published the results from its 'Spammed Persistently All Month' experiment, which saw people from 10 countries surf the web unprotected for a whole month. What they encountered is disturbing to say the least...
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Global spam trends reveal a taste for text, drugs and eBay
By: Davey Winder
An in-depth survey of the state of spam for the first half of 2008 reveals that spammers have re-discovered a love for the written word. They still rather like drugs and ebay as well...
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By: Davey Winder
An in-depth survey of the state of spam for the first half of 2008 reveals that spammers have re-discovered a love for the written word. They still rather like drugs and ebay as well...
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Spam back on the menu as botnet creating email triples in one week
By: Davey Winder
The volume of spam which exists not to sell you stuff, but simply to add your computer to a botnet collective has tripled in just one week. If that weren't worrying enough, it seems that the Srizbi botnet is now responsible for an incredible 46 percent of all spam being distributed.
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By: Davey Winder
The volume of spam which exists not to sell you stuff, but simply to add your computer to a botnet collective has tripled in just one week. If that weren't worrying enough, it seems that the Srizbi botnet is now responsible for an incredible 46 percent of all spam being distributed.
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The most dangerous Euro 2008 football team online
By: Davey Winder
With the Euro 2008 football championships well and truly underway, the Internet is proving to be the perfect place to catch up on scores, fixtures and soccer news. But Euro 2008 has also become a cybercrime hotspot, so we've named and shamed the most dangerous players in cyberspace.
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By: Davey Winder
With the Euro 2008 football championships well and truly underway, the Internet is proving to be the perfect place to catch up on scores, fixtures and soccer news. But Euro 2008 has also become a cybercrime hotspot, so we've named and shamed the most dangerous players in cyberspace.
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Tax time lures tech security companies into the open
By: Stephen Withers
The end of the financial year is less than a week away, and security software companies are using that to draw attention to their products.
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By: Stephen Withers
The end of the financial year is less than a week away, and security software companies are using that to draw attention to their products.
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Phishers target iTunes users
By: Stephen Withers
Most of us are used to ignoring emails that seem to come from banks and similar organisations asking the recipient to "confirm your details" or "reactivate your account". Now it's time to add another business to that mental list: Apple's iTunes Store.
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By: Stephen Withers
Most of us are used to ignoring emails that seem to come from banks and similar organisations asking the recipient to "confirm your details" or "reactivate your account". Now it's time to add another business to that mental list: Apple's iTunes Store.
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Spammers stung for $US230 million - but who collects?
By: Stephen Withers
A US court has made a $US230 million judgement against a pair of spammers, one of them the notorious Sanford "Spamford" Wallace. But the money might not be going where you would expect.
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By: Stephen Withers
A US court has made a $US230 million judgement against a pair of spammers, one of them the notorious Sanford "Spamford" Wallace. But the money might not be going where you would expect.
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Beware the bad words about Google Adwords
By: Stuart Corner
The latest phishing exercise aimed at getting you to divulge details of your bank account purports to be from Google telling you it can't pay you for your Google Adwords.
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By: Stuart Corner
The latest phishing exercise aimed at getting you to divulge details of your bank account purports to be from Google telling you it can't pay you for your Google Adwords.
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You have been photographed naked: you are being sued; you have a tax refund coming.
By: Stuart Corner
Cyber criminals are becoming increasingly inventive in their efforts to get the unsuspecting to give away personal details or install malware onto their systems.
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By: Stuart Corner
Cyber criminals are becoming increasingly inventive in their efforts to get the unsuspecting to give away personal details or install malware onto their systems.
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Symantec’s latest security report: web attacks getting much worse
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Drive-by downloads, bots, web attacks and the perversion of trusted sites is overwhelming Internet users and stealing their information in record numbers, with malicious hackers finding ways to beat new security methods as fast as they are developed. The wild, wild web is still very much with us!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Drive-by downloads, bots, web attacks and the perversion of trusted sites is overwhelming Internet users and stealing their information in record numbers, with malicious hackers finding ways to beat new security methods as fast as they are developed. The wild, wild web is still very much with us!
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Trojan steals Gmail passwords – and charges for it
By: David M Williams
Nobody wants to lose their e-mail. So, for Gmail users, G-Archiver seemed like a great buy. For $US 29.95 this shareware app will make a duplicate of your Gmail account on your hard disk, for as many accounts as you like. What its users didn't count on was that G-Archiver's authors helped themselves to your Gmail username and password too.
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By: David M Williams
Nobody wants to lose their e-mail. So, for Gmail users, G-Archiver seemed like a great buy. For $US 29.95 this shareware app will make a duplicate of your Gmail account on your hard disk, for as many accounts as you like. What its users didn't count on was that G-Archiver's authors helped themselves to your Gmail username and password too.
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Latest malware threats go local say McAfee
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Malware threats aren’t using the scattergun approach any longer, with criminals targeting users in their own languages in ever increasingly sophisticated attempts to become more successful at ripping us all off.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Malware threats aren’t using the scattergun approach any longer, with criminals targeting users in their own languages in ever increasingly sophisticated attempts to become more successful at ripping us all off.
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Sophos: Mac invulnerability bubble to pop in 2008?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
An online poll of 355 computer users by security firm Sophos shows that 93% believe Mac is set to become a big target for hackers and malware writers, sending shivers up the spine of any Mac user that still believes they’re invulnerable to the security threats that plague Windows PCs.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
An online poll of 355 computer users by security firm Sophos shows that 93% believe Mac is set to become a big target for hackers and malware writers, sending shivers up the spine of any Mac user that still believes they’re invulnerable to the security threats that plague Windows PCs.
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