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Fake AV peddlers change their tactics

There has been a decline in rogue AV schemes lately, and researchers chalk it up to a combination of law enforcement and security community efforts and an increased coverage …

Online social networks: Malware launch pads

With the advent of social networks, the online world has become a virtual society. Social networks serve as seamless communication channels, but at the same time they are …

Combating Halloween malware threats

GFI Software released tips for spotting and combating malware attacks and threats in the run up to Halloween. Halloween has now become firmly established as a family event in …

Facebook spammers trick users into sharing anti-CSRF tokens

Facebook spammers have already used a number of different approaches to make users inadvertently propagate their scams, and most of them fall into the social engineering …

Facebook Lottery scam emails making rounds

Offline crooks have had a lot of success with the bogus lottery winning letter scam, so it should come as no surprise it is often “translated” into an email and …

Scammers asking for donations for bogus Steve Jobs charity

Before his death, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was well known for not giving donations to charities or setting up foundations for various humanitarian causes, so it may come as a …

Hijacked phishing page warns users about phishing

hen you follow security news daily like I do, it is tough to keep a positive outlook when day after day you hear and read of users falling for basically the same scams simply …

Information theft still a serious threat to global business

Fraud remains predominantly an inside job, according to the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report. The study shows that 60 percent of frauds are committed by insiders, up from 55 …

Beware of bogus Gmail Hacker software

Hacking into someone’s mail account can be easy if the person chose an easily guessable password, but could be nigh impossible to brute force it if it’s long and …

Engineer jailed for turning PIN Entry Devices into skimmers

A German electronics engineer has been sentenced to three years in a UK prison for having modified a number of PIN Entry Devices to record the information used to clone credit …

“Facebook lost your messages” spam returns

Facebook users are constantly targeted by emails posing as legitimate notifications from the popular social network, and the latest ones are an upgraded version of an old fake …

What threats can we expect in October?

Fraudulent online storefront promising cheap HP Touchpads, poisoned search engine results targeting users searching on Yahoo and Bing, and spam promising a US green card have …

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