Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Security researcher Aviv Raff said on Wednesday that the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications are prone to URL spoofing and could allow phishing attacks against iPhone users.The alert was anticipated. Prior to the release of the iPhone on July 11, Raff was one of a few security researchers who indicated ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Phishers are doing their homework. The conventional way is to ask users to update their accounts by asking them to click a certain link. A phishing email usually displays legitimate URL or a hyperlink. Upon clicking, the user will be redirected to the phishing Web site.
But now, there’s no URL ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Roaring Penguin Software says its research shows that the proportion of email coming from Google Mail accounts that is spam has almost quadrupled, from 7 to 27 per cent. This means that more than one email message in four coming from a Google Mail account was classified as spam, which ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Several Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities were found in within Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2003/2007. An attacker can craft a malicious email which will trigger within a user's browser. Different version of OWA and different clients (Light and Premium) have different attack vectors which can result in an attacker gaining *persistent* ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Crafted Portable Document Format files can allow an attacker to gain control of a BlackBerry server. According to a security advisory from BlackBerry vendor RIM, the bug is in the PDF Distiller component of the Attachment Service, which runs on the server and prepares PDF email attachments for display on ...
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