With Koobface continuing to spreading across Facebook by utilizing hundreds of compromised sites as infection vectors, next to using them as distributed hosting infrastructure in an attempt to undermine potential… Read more »
CDC has received reports of fraudulent emails (phishing) referencing a CDC sponsored State Vaccination Program for H1N1. The messages request that users create a personal H1N1 (swine flu) Vaccination Profile… Read more »
If you’re like most folks you are taking your time installing Microsoft’s latest round of security patches. However, you may want to get your rear end in gear.Specifically apply MS08-001,... Read more »
Fraudsters are targeting troubled borrowers facing foreclosure in a scheme that could leave homeowners with even more debt than they otherwise would face, a new online video warns. In the… Read more »
Internet Security Services, IBM’s online-security division, claims to have noticed a significant drop in the number of characters used by fraudsters in their phishing URLs. A post on ISS’s Frequency… Read more »
A Microsoft executive calls the ease with which two British e-crime specialists managed to hack into a Windows XP computer as both “enlightening and frightening.” The demonstration took place Monday… Read more »
The Federal Trade Commission, which has declared war on Internet scams, warned consumers on Monday not to open a bogus e-mail that appears to come from its fraud department because… Read more »
Spammers are exploiting YouTube’s “invite your friends” function to send spam containing a variant of the “Storm worm.” Bradley Anstis, director of product management at security firm Marshal, said that… Read more »
Corporate brands face multipronged assaults from fraudulent online attackers, according to a report published Monday that quantifies the scope of the most common threats. MarkMonitor, which supplies Internet brand protection… Read more »
Will the White House make a difference in computer security? The President’s Office of Management and Budget recently sent out a directive to federal chief information officers to secure their… Read more »
newsmaker If you have an e-mail account, chances are you’re used to seeing messages that purport to come from PayPal but which are actually spam from attackers trying to get… Read more »
U.S. networks pumped out the highest percentage of attacks during the second half of last year, with China running a distant second, according to a report released Monday by security… Read more »
Microsoft is investigating a possible vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7 that could help cybercrooks launch phishing scams, the company said Wednesday. An attacker can use an error message displayed by… Read more »
news analysis Whether YouTube suffers the same fate as Napster may depend on the wording of a nearly antique law written long before video-sharing Web sites were envisioned. The law… Read more »
There’s still plenty of spam going around, but “adult” spam has been on a steady decline and hit an all-time low in February, according to a new Symantec report. Of… Read more »
