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A new malicious spam campaign is exploiting the rumors surrounding the health of former Cuban leader, Fidel Castro. The emails show a photo of Castro allegedly lying in a coffin as part of a fake breaking news alert. The emails …

In recent weeks, two typically secure Internet sites have been exploited successfully by phishers. Apple’s iTunes store, situated behind the company’s walled ecosystem, has been a tough nut to crack for cyber miscreants, although it has had problems with them …

The Conficker worm shut down the Manchester UK police station for 3 days earlier this month. It forced police officers to rely on other jurisdictions to access the country’s criminal data base as the Manchester station was disconnected from the …

Security researchers have discovered a vicious new virus. Dubbed Win32.Worm.Zimuse.A, it appears to have originated in Slovakia but has been quickly making its way around the world with the highest rate of infection now in the United States, followed by …

The first smartphone malware began innocently enough. A Dutch cracker discovers a way to penetrate modified, or “jailbroken,” iPhones using their default root password “alpine.” “You want to protect this phone from more attacks?” he asks his victims. “Pay me …

A new malicious spam attack is exploiting the popular site Craigslist. The messages arrive with the subject line “Re: Car For Sale on Craigslist” and with a message that look like a reply to an inquiry about a car for …

Indy.com reported in early April 2009 about the waledec bot riding along with Conficker virus. “Conficker, for the first time, moved beyond sitting quietly on millions of Windows computers worldwide to infecting other vulnerable computers. This means many more consumers …

This story is near and dear to me.  One day I went into a frenzy, because a good friend sent me an email that she was stranded in Ghana and needed me to send her some money.  She never mentioned …