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After MasterCard, Visa Gets Scammed Too

Following last week's report that MasterCard owners had been targeted by a phishing scheme attempting to steal their private financial details, it was only a matter of time until Visa's consumers joined the club. Security company Sophos today reports that a new phishing scam was detected, this time targetin...

16 April 2008
09:23 GMT

Unsafe Browsers to Be Banned By PayPal, Safari Among the Favorites

Browser vulnerabilities are among the main causes of web attacks because they allow hackers and malicious people to take over the control over a certain computer or just insert a dangerous code to harm the data stored on the system. Because of that, the PayPal may take the decision to ban browsers dubbed as unsafe an...

18 April 2008
06:26 GMT

Google Rolls Out Anti-Phishing Filter

Since Google provides access to a huge number of websites, powerful security measures are obviously "a must," so every once in a while, the Mountain View-based company implements a new function or improves an older one. Today, Ionut Alex Chitu informs that Google now provides phishing warning, which means the user wh...

21 April 2008
03:32 GMT

Users Install Antiviruses but Forget about Anti-Spyware

A study published by APACS, a UK payment association, reveals what was already known by all of us: the number of the phishing attacks is continuously increasing. According to a report published by the mentioned association, there were no less than 10,235 reported phishing scams in the first quarter of 2008, compared ...

21 April 2008
17:06 GMT

Phishers Look For New Victims in Panama

Phishers are continuously seeking for new victims so although it seems like they've stopped their malicious activities, they're actually launching them in a different corner of the world. What seems to be one of their latest targets is Panama, a country which has been often avoided by phishing scams. Accord...

22 April 2008
10:34 GMT

450 Million Windows Computers Under Attack

Windows is without a doubt the most attacked platform worldwide, an inherent detail associated with its ubiquity. Because it is able to centralize data from such a vast pool of end users, Microsoft is capable of putting together perhaps the most comprehensive perspective over the threat environment involving everythi...

22 April 2008
11:00 GMT




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