Items tagged with 'Phishing'
A Phishing Reminder, As The FBI Director is Banned From Online Banking
FBI Director Robert Mueller, while speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Wednesday, gave an example of why everyone should be wary of cybercrime. He related the story of the head of one of America's domestic agencies. This person, Mueller said, received an email, purportedly from his bank, which looked "perfectly... Read More
IE 8 Found To Be Safest Web Browser In Studies Funded by Microsoft
Internet Explorer 8 is the safest web browser on the market, according to a pair of studies sponsored by, um, Microsoft.One study focused on socially engineered malware and the other on phishing.In the first study, NSS Labs found that IE8 caught 81 percent of live threats, while Firefox 3 caught 27 percent, Safari... Read More
We're receiving more spam!
It's not your imagination. You are getting more spam in your e-mail inbox.Symantec, which focuses on Internet security and storage, issued a report this week that said a stunning 90.4 percent of e-mail on corporate networks this month was unsolicited. That's a 5.1 percent jump over April.The report highlights:• Spam... Read More
Spammers, Scammers Use Swine Flu to Advantage
Typical of any such crises, whether its the aftermath of an even such as an earthquake, or in this case, the swine flu, phishers and spammers are taking advantage of the situation. Symantec reports on spam that seems designed to simply gather email addresses and phone numbers for a future campaign perhaps. As shown above,... Read More
Comcast User Names and Passwords Exposed
Googling your own name might not be such a narcissistic activity after all; in fact, it just must save you from identity theft. At least that's what Kevin Andreyo, a Wilkes University professor, discovered when he used the "deep web" search engine, Pipl, to see what information about him might be publicly available on the... Read More
TinyURL Phishing Increases in Popularity
TinyURL is a popular URL shortening service which is frequently used to reduce the length of a URL to something more manageable. Security firm Trend Micro has warned that TinyURL phishing, first reported in February, is becoming more popular and spreading across different languages. An example of tinyURL use would be perhaps... Read More
Phishing Scam Targets Google Talk
It seems Google can’t catch a break. Just hours after Google’s Gmail service was hit by an outage that lasted several hours, Google Talk became the victim of a phishing scam. Users of the instant messaging service received a TinyURL link that appeared to be from friends on their buddy lists. When a user clicked the link,... Read More
Browser bug increases vulnerability to phishing
On the heels of the phishing attacks on Twitter and Digg, where all that immediately seemed to be at risk were logon credentials to the social sites, comes a potentially much more insidious problem.Security vendor Trusteer has found a JavaScript bug in all major browsers makes it easier for crooks to steal your login information... Read More
Oops, They Hacked Twitter Again!
Oops, they hacked Twitter again. Yep, in a breach totally separate from the phishing scam from last weekend, Twitter has been hacked. And not just any account, either. We're talking about the accounts of none other than the President-elect (which had been idle since the election), Britney Spears, Fox News,... Read More
Phishing, in 140 Characters or Less
A phishing scam, in 140 characters or less? That's what we have here, as a phishing scam apparently hit Twitter on Saturday. According to Twitter, If you receive an email notice saying you’ve received a Direct Message with a link that redirects to what seems like Twitter.com, be careful about entering your Twitter credentials.... Read More
Spear-Phishing Attacks Land Some Whales
Sophisticated, targeted phishing attacks have successfully swiped data from roughly 15,000 victims within the last 15 months according to Internet security company, VeriSign. VeriSign believes that almost all of these attacks are coming from just two groups. "Unlike traditional phishing attacks, which are sent to millions... Read More
38 Indicted For Phishing
38 U.S. and Romanians have been arrested and indicted for phishing and related charges. “The indictments, in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the District of Connecticut, focus on two related phishing schemes with ties to organized crime, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Phishing... Read More
Phishing With Google Gadgets?
Phishing has become a very serious problem recently. In fact, it has become so serious that new versions of leading browsers have anti-phishing technology built into them. That doesn't mean that phishers are out of business. No sir.In fact, it just means that they're trying to find new methods around new security measures.Phishers... Read More
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