items tagged with Phishing
Beware the phantom tweet
Written By: David Heath
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-11-04 16:44:34
Over the past few days, twitter users have been receiving DM messages supposedly from friends linking to a Twitter login page. DON'T DO IT!
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Written By: David Heath
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-11-04 16:44:34
Over the past few days, twitter users have been receiving DM messages supposedly from friends linking to a Twitter login page. DON'T DO IT!
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Australian spam rates higher than global average
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2009-10-27 22:12:26
Spam levels in Australia are going through the roof, increasing by two percent to 92.7 percent of all emails received by business, and higher than the global average.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2009-10-27 22:12:26
Spam levels in Australia are going through the roof, increasing by two percent to 92.7 percent of all emails received by business, and higher than the global average.
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McAfee releases Endpoint for Mac
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2009-10-13 18:43:37
McAfee has released its Endpoint Protection for Mac that supports Apple’s latest Snow Leopard release of Mac OS X, as well as Leopard and Tiger.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2009-10-13 18:43:37
McAfee has released its Endpoint Protection for Mac that supports Apple’s latest Snow Leopard release of Mac OS X, as well as Leopard and Tiger.
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Phishing attacks decrease, but respite may be short-lived
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-10-10 18:39:56
Phishing attacks around the globe dropped by five percent over recent weeks and there was a significant decrease in attacks using phishing toolkits, but the respite from the dreaded phishers may be short-lived.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-10-10 18:39:56
Phishing attacks around the globe dropped by five percent over recent weeks and there was a significant decrease in attacks using phishing toolkits, but the respite from the dreaded phishers may be short-lived.
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FBI Phries Phishers
Written By: David Heath
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-10-08 21:10:07
The culmination of the FBI’s Operation Phish Phry, commenced in 2007, has seen one hundred people in USA and Egypt charged with various financial crimes in the past 48 hours.
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Written By: David Heath
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-10-08 21:10:07
The culmination of the FBI’s Operation Phish Phry, commenced in 2007, has seen one hundred people in USA and Egypt charged with various financial crimes in the past 48 hours.
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Canberra to query Microsoft on Hotmail breach
Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news
Category: Network Security
2009-10-07 02:57:09
Microsoft is to be queried by a parliamentary committee investigating cyber-crime over an embarrassing phishing attack on its Hotmail service that allowed unauthorised access to the personal details of up to 10,000 email users.
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Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news
Category: Network Security
2009-10-07 02:57:09
Microsoft is to be queried by a parliamentary committee investigating cyber-crime over an embarrassing phishing attack on its Hotmail service that allowed unauthorised access to the personal details of up to 10,000 email users.
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Hotmail hacked?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-10-05 18:02:59
Microsoft has confirmed that thousands of users of the world's most popular email service need to change their passwords. Urgently.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-10-05 18:02:59
Microsoft has confirmed that thousands of users of the world's most popular email service need to change their passwords. Urgently.
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Dubious Australian honour as top 10 phishing attack host
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-09-02 03:59:01
Australia is still one of the top 10 countries to host phishing attacks, according to a new security fraud report out today, while six countries - the US, U.K, Italy, Canada, Spain and South Africa – have consistently suffered the most phishing attacks.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-09-02 03:59:01
Australia is still one of the top 10 countries to host phishing attacks, according to a new security fraud report out today, while six countries - the US, U.K, Italy, Canada, Spain and South Africa – have consistently suffered the most phishing attacks.
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Dramatic drop in virus-infected emails hitting Australia
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-08-25 23:02:55
Australia has dropped like a stone from its number one spot as the country receiving the most virus-infected emails to number 12 in the world, but our level of spam activity is still above the global average despite Australian spam activity decreasing by two percent this month.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-08-25 23:02:55
Australia has dropped like a stone from its number one spot as the country receiving the most virus-infected emails to number 12 in the world, but our level of spam activity is still above the global average despite Australian spam activity decreasing by two percent this month.
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Online crims go phishing for Australian tax refunds
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-08-24 04:50:59
Cyber criminals have been tricking Australian taxpayers into revealing highly sensitive, personal information – essentially stealing their identities – to get hold of their tax refunds in a new phishing scam targeting the Australian Tax Office.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-08-24 04:50:59
Cyber criminals have been tricking Australian taxpayers into revealing highly sensitive, personal information – essentially stealing their identities – to get hold of their tax refunds in a new phishing scam targeting the Australian Tax Office.
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Dirtiest Websites are filthy in more ways than one
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Anti-Virus
2009-08-19 18:41:56
Conventional wisdom says that visiting smutty sites is likely to result in a dose of malware. Symantec's list of the Dirtiest Websites of Winter 2009 bears that out - but it's not quite that simple.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Anti-Virus
2009-08-19 18:41:56
Conventional wisdom says that visiting smutty sites is likely to result in a dose of malware. Symantec's list of the Dirtiest Websites of Winter 2009 bears that out - but it's not quite that simple.
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Auto toolkit phishing attacks continue to rise
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-10 04:31:55
The use of automated phishing toolkits continues unabated, with the number of phishing URLs generated using the toolkits soaring to 63 percent in July, an increase of 150 percent.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-10 04:31:55
The use of automated phishing toolkits continues unabated, with the number of phishing URLs generated using the toolkits soaring to 63 percent in July, an increase of 150 percent.
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Fresh food people fear Domino’s style Web 2.0 experience
Written By: Beverley Head
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-04 06:13:36
Domino’s experience with social networks, which saw rogue employees post videos of themselves interfering with pizza toppings, is one of the five online threats that worries Woolworths most – and may prompt the retail giant to take out special insurance against ‘catastrophic risk’ from cyber-attack.
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Written By: Beverley Head
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-04 06:13:36
Domino’s experience with social networks, which saw rogue employees post videos of themselves interfering with pizza toppings, is one of the five online threats that worries Woolworths most – and may prompt the retail giant to take out special insurance against ‘catastrophic risk’ from cyber-attack.
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Spammers get the upper hand: spam levels at all time high
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-07-21 22:23:46
According to Marshal8e6's TRACElabs weekly spam volumes have broken the record set in July 2008, and have risen 60 percent since the start of 2008 with spammers having learnt how to minimise disruptions to their operations caused by the shutting down of one of their major botnets.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-07-21 22:23:46
According to Marshal8e6's TRACElabs weekly spam volumes have broken the record set in July 2008, and have risen 60 percent since the start of 2008 with spammers having learnt how to minimise disruptions to their operations caused by the shutting down of one of their major botnets.
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Spammers exploit Michael Jackson death
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2009-07-13 06:27:02
Spammers and malicious code authors have created and launched several new spam and malware campaigns using the death of Michael Jackson as a cover for their infected emails.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2009-07-13 06:27:02
Spammers and malicious code authors have created and launched several new spam and malware campaigns using the death of Michael Jackson as a cover for their infected emails.
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New technique used in ATO phishing attacks
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-07-13 04:37:21
Spammers have employed a new technique in their phishing attacks on the Australian Taxation Office website in an attempt to snatch tax refund details from users of the site doing their tax return online.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-07-13 04:37:21
Spammers have employed a new technique in their phishing attacks on the Australian Taxation Office website in an attempt to snatch tax refund details from users of the site doing their tax return online.
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Gaming threat most prevalent as Web threats surge
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-07-09 03:45:16
There was significant growth in Web threat traffic in June with increased volumes of malware, and an online gaming Trojan the most active bit of malware circulating around the Internet.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-07-09 03:45:16
There was significant growth in Web threat traffic in June with increased volumes of malware, and an online gaming Trojan the most active bit of malware circulating around the Internet.
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A billion reasons to be wary of emails from Australia!
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: News feature
Category: Security
2009-07-07 03:35:05
A staggering one billion malicious emails orginate from Australia every day of the week as spammers push out their emails to Internet users, enticing them to buy discounted pharmaceuticals, replica watches, greeting cards, or to sneak a peek at naked pictures of pop star Rhianna.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: News feature
Category: Security
2009-07-07 03:35:05
A staggering one billion malicious emails orginate from Australia every day of the week as spammers push out their emails to Internet users, enticing them to buy discounted pharmaceuticals, replica watches, greeting cards, or to sneak a peek at naked pictures of pop star Rhianna.
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Can you sniff out a rotten phish?
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-06-29 07:49:09
If so you are a member of an elite minority. According to research undertaken by Internet security specialist VeriSign, 86 percent of Australian Web users are at risk from online fraud, because they can't tell a phishy web site from the real thing.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-06-29 07:49:09
If so you are a member of an elite minority. According to research undertaken by Internet security specialist VeriSign, 86 percent of Australian Web users are at risk from online fraud, because they can't tell a phishy web site from the real thing.
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Thousands visit ATO phishing site
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-19 01:55:50
Thousands of Australians have visited just one of the phishing sites currently trying to collect people's banking and other personal details on the false promise of a tax refund.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-19 01:55:50
Thousands of Australians have visited just one of the phishing sites currently trying to collect people's banking and other personal details on the false promise of a tax refund.
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