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Phishing Scam Targets Victims Using Better Business Bureau

This past holiday season showed that spending in brick and mortar stores was significantly off targeted projects. People just weren’t spending as much money in the malls and department stores. However every single study of consumer spending did show that …

Phishing Scam Targets Victims Using Better Business Bureau
   

Go Phish Yourself?

A new open source toolkit is designed to provide a way for companies to educate their employees on how to spot phishing scams, but it may give scammers a lot of help as well. The open source Simple Phishing Toolkit …

Go Phish Yourself?
   

Several New Phishing Campaigns Going Strong

Several new phishing campaigns have been spotted in the wild. The first one is a new incarnation of an old scam. Emails that look like they’ve come from your friends arrive with an urgent message about them being on a trip to …

Several New Phishing Campaigns Going Strong
   

Kelihos Actions Continue: New Defendant Named

Last September we reported on Microsoft’s actions in taking down the Kelihos Botnet, and the civil actions pending against alleged perpetrators including Czech citizen Dominique Alexander Piatti and the dotFREE Group SRO. We then followed up with a story on …

Kelihos Actions Continue: New Defendant Named
   

The year’s off to a rousing start, with all sorts of interesting security news this week: Wikipedia led a temporarily successful foray against SOPA and PIPA by joining numerous websites that went dark for a day; the founder of Megaupload …

Week in Review: You Can’t Spell Twitter Without ‘Twit’
   

Fake LinkedIn Emails Delivering Spam

A new spam campaign is brand jacking popular social networking site LinkedIn to spreadlinks leading to shady domains. The emails, which look like notifications from the site telling the recipient they have a message waiting, contain links that allegedly lead …

Fake LinkedIn Emails Delivering Spam
   

Most adults are well aware of spam. Having encountered email spam since the early days, it is safe to say that many people over the age of 20 have at one time or another been educated, trained or have experience …

Spammers Targeting Kids Through Gaming Sites
   

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  • Murr on Spammers Targeting Kids Through Gaming Sites January 27, 2012

    This is the reason why I'm against websites and portals that don't have any means of verifying their users are at least 12 or 13 years old. Take for instance Facebook. According to the company's official policy, no one should be allowed to register and use Facebook if they are below 13 years old. You can see the details here: https://www.facebook.com/help/parents However, I have tons of friends and co-workers who let their children below 13 years old use Facebook. Most don't have their parents' permissions. Aside from crowd-sourcing data or reports from other users, Facebook does not have any means of verifying their users' age. This is also one of Myspace's downfall. The said social media website became a haven of child molesters.

  • PAUla Jacobs on Fake LinkedIn Emails Delivering Spam January 27, 2012

    Well, I haven't yet experienced being phished or hijacked on all my personal and corporate email accounts. Maybe because I'm too careful about my email addresses. I don't share them publicly - especially on social media and online communities. If it's really necessary to divulge my email address, I put my so-called "alternative" email account. This account is somewhat anonymous - it does not tell my name and it's from Gmail. I only give this email address when someone I don't personally know will ask for one. You can also use this in forums and discussion groups.

  • Sarah Meyers on Week in Review: You Can’t Spell Twitter Without ‘Twit’ January 27, 2012

    I would not consider QR codes as spam or a spam threat for that matter. It's a very useful and practical application that has a tendency to be exploited by spammers, scammers, hackers, phishers and malware makers. About the Twitter incident, I think some of its users are not aware of the dangerous effect of publicly sharing their email addresses. And this is not only confined to Twitter. Some of my friends in Facebook freely post their email accounts on walls and discussion groups - others even put their email address and phone numbers on their profile.

  • Murr on Kelihos Actions Continue: New Defendant Named January 26, 2012

    The battle against computer viruses, phishing attacks, spam, and all types of Internet-based malwares should be continued by Microsoft for the corporation alone has the manpower and resources to stop them. However, I'm a bit dissatisfied on why they did not include the original respondents of the case - Dominique Alexander Piatti and the dotFREE Group SRO. They should also be indicted and convicted because they have some sort of participation - even if it's just minor involvement.