PayPal phishing campaign hits inboxes

PayPal phishing campaign hits inboxes


PayPal phishing campaign hits inboxes

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 09:19 AM PST

PayPal users should be on the lookout for phishing e-mails with "Please confirm your identity" in the subject line supposedly coming from the service: The download and a click on the attachment o...

3-and-a-half years sentence for PayPal thief

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:16 AM PST

Accused of having broken into 303 eBay and PayPal accounts and of stealing over £180,000 in total from the legitimate owners of the accounts, a 22-year old from Sherwood, Nottingham, has plead gu...

Spyware compromises 150,000+ Symbian devices

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 07:48 AM PST

A new variant of spyware "Spy.Felxispy" on Symbian devices causing privacy leakage has recently been captured by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre of China. According to NetQin ...

Mubarak advance-fee fraud scam

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 06:37 AM PST

German-speaking Internet users are being targeted by a common scam with an unusual twist, warns Symantec. The well-known 419 (or advance-fee fraud) scam template has been modified and adapted t...

41% of organizations not aware of security risks

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 06:28 AM PST

41 percent of organizations are not well aware of or protected against IT security risks, according to McAfee. Another 40 percent are not completely confident they can accurately deploy countermeas...

BIND Denial of Service vulnerability

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 06:02 AM PST

A vulnerability has been reported in BIND, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service, according to Secunia. When an authoritative server processes a successful IXFR tr...

A single click can open door to cybercrime

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 05:50 AM PST

Blue Coat Systems unveiled their 2011 security report that examines Web behavior and the malware to which users are most frequently exposed. The report analyzes Web requests from the Blue Coat WebPuls...

Social networks: An information security game changer

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 05:23 AM PST

The Internet has revolutionized business and significantly cut costs in nearly every sector. An in-person bank transaction that costs the enterprise US $15 is only pennies when done online. Be it onli...

"Free Southwest Airlines tickets" Facebook scam

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 05:10 AM PST

A new scam is targeting Facebook users and luring them in with promises of complimentary tickers from Southwest Airlines. But what makes this scam different and quite likely more effective than you...

Event: TakeDownCon Dallas 2011

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 02:16 AM PST

TakeDownCon takes deep dives into single, hot security segments. The format consists of 3/4 days hands-on technical training classes prior to the event; and a two-day, modestly priced highly technical...

Entrust credentialing services smartcards earn Microsoft certification

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 09:03 PM PST

Entrust credentialing services and related smartcard technology have earned full Microsoft certification for demonstrating hardware compatibility with the company's line of operating systems. This ...

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