Monday, December 7th, 2009 Trusteer warned the customers of website hosting companies, including yahoo.com, against a new phishing attack aimed at stealing their content management system log-in credentials. The e-mails appear to be from a website hosting firm and ask website owners to confirm their cPanel/FTP account information. Using this information, criminals are uploading ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009 Finally, some help with explaining internet security to my non-geek friends! The Guide to Scary Internet Stuff video series will hopefully make my life a little easier. Explaining the intricacies of Internet security is a challenging task. I often have difficulty explaining to my non-technical friends and relatives why they ...
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Researchers at several security firms have tied the Bredolab Trojan to a spam campaign targeting Facebook users.The malware is being blasted out by spammers in e-mails claiming to come from “The Facebook Team." Inside the e-mails is a message that the recipient's Facebook password has been changed. In order to ...
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Monday, October 5th, 2009 Several thousand Hotmail usernames and passwords were exposed on over the weekend via a phishing attack, Microsoft confirmed late on Monday.Microsoft said it would block access to the accounts that were exposed and work with customers to reclaim access to them."Over the weekend Microsoft learned that several thousand Windows Live ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009 A phishing scam is circulating on Twitter that aims to steal users' log-in credentials and then forward scam messages to all their friends in the hope of tricking them too.The scam begins with a direct message -- one sent directly between two Twitter users -- that reads "ROFL this you ...
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