Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered that malware authors are already using Christmas themes this year as a social engineering tactic, in an effort to gain control over compromised machines. This campaign uses email messages in the form of e-greetings, leading to supposed animated postcards. These actually lead to ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008 I received another email today supposedly from an FBI Director claiming that I am the beneficiary for a $10.5 million sum. Basically, it's the newer version of the old Nigeria scam. Here are the exact email contents, including the basic headers:
-----Original Message-----
From: Federal Bureau of Investigation [mailto:fbi.info@fbi.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 14, ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008 Microsoft users are being targeted again by malware via e-mail, scammers/spammers never give up and for once the e-mail looks fairly legitimate.Usually this kind of ‘baitware’ is riddled with terrible grammar and horrible spellings, do make sure you brief the less security aware friends you have about this though just ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Even routinely clean antivirus scans can’t hide the dirty little secret more enterprises are facing today: Some of their client machines are members of botnets.That’s why Matt Sergeant, senior anti-spam technologist for MessageLabs Ltd. , hopes to educate some large organizations and ISPs on how to detect and clean up ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Everyone knows that some people get more spam than others, but new research shows that it may have something to do with the first letter of your email address.Richard Clayton, a security researcher at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., says he found evidence that the more common the ...
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