Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 For the security-conscious, those shortened URLs on Twitter can be unnerving. After all, where is that shortened URL really taking you? This summer, security vendors documented how spammers and phishers were exploiting URL shortening services to try to trick users into visiting sketchy sites. On Monday, one URL shortening service ...
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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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Sunday, October 4th, 2009 Leaving your email as plain text in forums, on Twitter or on classified sites makes you an easy spam target: spam robots and email harvesters constantly browse these sites to collect new victim emails.Don't share your email on public sites. Instead, use our free service that will convert your email ...
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009 Chances are that in the past week you've received an e-mail in your inbox that pretends to be from your bank, e-commerce vendor, or other on-line site. Hopefully you've realized that many times this e-mail is fake - a phishing or spam e-mail. The sender (phisher) of these fake e-mails ...
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009 A stitch in time saves nine. I couldn’t sew my way out of a bag, but it’s true advice for bloggers as well — a little bit of work on an upgrade now saves a lot of work fixing something later.Right now there is a worm making its way around ...
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