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Tom Kelchner writing over at the Sunbelt Blog is signaling that a new phisher is on the loose, sending out fake emails to MobileMe subscribers demanding that they update their credit card information, in what looks like a typical phishing scam. This isn’t, by far, the first (and likely not the last) time Mobile... |
12 November 2009
08:16 GMT |
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A company going by the name of The-iPhone-Unlock.com says it is able to provide iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS users with a reliable unlock solution, so that they can break free from the shackles and use their powerful smartphones with any carrier in the world. Softpedia previously heard a similar story from iPhone Unlocking ... |
20 October 2009
08:40 GMT |
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Soon after Apple had rolled out firmware update 3.1 for iPhone and version 3.1.1 for iPod touch, the iPhone Dev Team got busy trying to deliver an updated PwnageTool that could effectively jailbreak the software. As the infamous team of hackers was finally able to deliver(admittedly, only for two versions of each dev... |
5 October 2009
03:02 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that Twitter users have been the target of several new, malicious attacks recently. These include a campaign distributing fake antivirus pieces of software, a Twitter-credential phishing attack and Google jobs-related scam. A few days ago, Sophos' Graham Cluley reported that several Tw... |
25 September 2009
07:08 GMT |
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Panda Labs' Technical Director, Luis Corrons, has discovered a Russian-owned website that offers to hack any Facebook account for $100. The website is registered to a Moscow address, being offered with English content to appeal to a broader audience. At a first look, the website seems to be a legitimate servic... |
19 September 2009
06:53 GMT |
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Now that the “Harry Potter” franchise is slowly drawing to an end, “Twilight” is edging as the biggest teen franchise of the years to come, with a fanbase already as large as it is dedicated and loyal. It is precisely on this that the latest online scam relies, promising as it does the possibi... |
8 September 2009
10:08 GMT |
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At the beginning of the week, the local media in Romania started to run ads for an AC/DC concert, which was supposedly taking place at the end of May as part of a two-day rock festival. More than 8,000 tickets were sold in just a couple of days but, as it turns out, the legendary rock band had not even been told it w... |
16 April 2009
03:42 GMT |
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A Michigan-based scammer who illegally acquired more than 9,000 replacement iPod shuffles now faces prison, as several reports indicate. Nicholas Woodhams has pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering scheme and is to be sentenced August 25, 2009. The story, however, has quite a few twists.According to The In... |
8 April 2009
09:19 GMT |
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A report claims that a scammer has sent out spam spoofed to appear to come from Apple, in another attempt to con MobileMe users into providing their credit card information. The phony e-mail directs users to a fake site designed to look like Apple's. Users unknowingly follow the email link and enter their inform... |
27 February 2009
05:06 GMT |
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Users of MobileMe have been receiving a new e-mail that looks like it comes from Apple, warning that attempts to renew the MobileMe subscription have failed because of a problem with charging the credit card. The message prompts users to log in and update (provide) their credit card information on a site that looks l... |
12 February 2009
07:07 GMT |
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A phishing campaign that makes use of the Google Calendar features was recently distributed to the users of the service. The same techniques were employed by another Google Calendar-based phishing scam that made the rounds during May and June 2008. According to a report by Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant ... |
30 December 2008
08:45 GMT |
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Several online poker players have exposed a fraud performed with the help of a cheat code that is estimated at $74 million according to an MSNBC report. The affected software was run by UltimateBet, a well known online poker website.UltimateBet is amongst the top poker websites on the Internet and it was acquired by ... |
25 September 2008
10:25 GMT |
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Reports are flying in saying that a scammer using an e-mail purporting to be from Apple is targeting MobileMe users. The e-mail claims there are problems with the users' subscription, and asks of them to re-enter their credit card information.As many of you should know (and especially former .Mac users), the tra... |
8 September 2008
05:42 GMT |
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Verizon, the popular wireless Internet and mobile services provider, was unwillingly involved in a scam that tried to persuade each of the victims to cough up no less than $3,200. Unknown persons, using the name of the company, tried to trick randomly selected individuals into believing they had won a $750,000 prize.... |
25 August 2008
04:45 GMT |
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This you won't believe. Apple's iPhone 3G, as you've probably already heard, is launching in 21 new countries starting today. While some markets are packed full of iPhone fans just waiting to grab the handset, in other territories, such as Poland, people aren't that keen on buying the new device. ... |
22 August 2008
15:47 GMT |
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The National Police Service in Ireland is investigating a major credit card scam in which information of over 20,000 credit and debit cards has been stolen. The attackers posed as bank service personnel and attached rogue devices to card readers in stores from northeast Ireland. The captured data was then sent on the... |
20 August 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned Windows Live Hotmail users that a new phishing scam is in progress, designed to hijack accounts. According to a member of the Windows Live Hotmail team, users have started receiving phishing messages warning of the immediate shutdown of their accounts with the Microsoft email service unless they ... |
12 August 2008
05:40 GMT |
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Sources are informing us that iPhone users searching the web for "iPhone apps" are most likely going to end up browsing the inner sections of a certain iPhoneApps.org, an (allegedly) scammy site that sells you not apps, but the ZiPhone jailbreaking tool, which... yeah, is freeware."Our developers here at iphone apps ... |
23 July 2008
09:07 GMT |
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The Nigerian scammers seem to be out of fresh ideas to put to use and line their pockets, so they are reviving a classic phishing attempt. They are once again sending out threatening spam messages and asking people to pay large amounts of money if they want to get to stay alive. The only difference is that they are n... |
22 July 2008
09:34 GMT |
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Why should scammers and spammers limit themselves to the Internet when there are far more mobile phone users than web surfers? In Australia there is a new scam going on, that attempts to separate people from their hard earned money by informing them that a hitman has been hired to kill them. Of course, you can get a... |
12 July 2008
07:37 GMT |
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The world is still terrified by the earthquake which shook down China on May 12 and scammers, hackers and phishers still want to take advantage of this. Another scam was detected by security company Sophos under the form of a 419 email which asks readers for their money. The only difference from a traditional 419 sca... |
26 May 2008
10:44 GMT |
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It's well known the fact that the upcoming Beijing Olympics will be one of the busiest times of the year for hackers because most of them will launch attacks related to the event in order to find new victims. In fact, it seems like the attacks have already been launched as NetworkWorld informs that a couple of p... |
25 April 2008
16:06 GMT |
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A new online lottery scam has been spotted on the web but, this time, the one affected is not Google or Yahoo, as in the previous cases, but Kia, the famous car producer. According to MotorTrader, an email message claiming to be sent by Kia informs readers that they have won a Kia and a 750,000 pounds money prize at ... |
23 April 2008
06:04 GMT |
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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 |
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Hackers work 24/7 and new victims of their malicious attempts appear every day. But what's interesting is that, of the total number of complainants who reported attacks, no less than 57.6 percent were male. This means that women are more difficult to trick when it comes to hacking/infecting/compromising a comput... |
4 April 2008
17:26 GMT |
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The Condemned 2 publishers have announced that two so-called "theme packs" and five picture packs are now available to be purchased via Xbox Live Marketplace. In what seems to be a revolutionary breakthrough and an incredible, unique gift, both the theme packs and the picture ones can be used as wallpapers or just k... |
14 March 2008
03:38 GMT |
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Buying a laptop cheaper than its market price is something most people only dream of, but it only happens to the lucky ones that are in the right place in the right time. You have to weigh you options very carefully and then know when to step in to make the kill, any bidding done too early might jeopardize the entire... |
11 March 2008
17:41 GMT |
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Gmail backup software G-Archiver, that should save all of the emails in the inbox on your hard drive, proves to be a user's nightmare, as Coding Horror reported that, besides doing what it is advertised to, the software also emails the user name and passwords of those who have installed and used it, to the appar... |
10 March 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Scams will be around for years to come, if not to the end of time. Seemingly natural, some people think they are smarter than others and try to take advantage of their gullibility. Truth be told, they often are, but that doesn't give them the right to benefit from their victims' lack of experience in Intern... |
5 March 2008
15:56 GMT |
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Well, "the world's best browser" seemingly doesn't fit the "safe" profile, according to PayPal, who has recently put up a list of recommended browsers. Unsurprisingly, Safari is not among them, for it still doesn't fully protect non-savvy users from phishing sites, for example."Safari protects your per... |
29 February 2008
03:48 GMT |
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I'm certain that each and everybody in the online community has received at one point an email from the grieving widow of some general from an African country that only needed some bank information to be able to transfer the huge sum of money left to her but couldn't collect. It usually says that for the se... |
26 February 2008
16:41 GMT |
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There are a lot of official tournaments and competitions organized by game developers or serious gaming networks. These will probably have no problem in giving you the exact cash prize they have promised or offer a full refund if something goes wrong. Unfortunately, there are a ton of other competitions organized in ... |
19 February 2008
07:01 GMT |
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A canine companion is something many people wanted for as long as they can remember, but because of parenting issues or space restrictions were never able to acquire one. The market being incredibly open because of the Internet options that have been added progressively, it was the perfect means for Mary Ann Alfaro t... |
14 February 2008
15:11 GMT |
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Auction sites are a breeding ground for every possible scammer there is. The procedure is fairly simple: you find somebody who has something you want, you win the auction and then ask for the product to be sent to your place (at this point it would be great to have a 'rented' PO box at a post office) and ne... |
13 February 2008
15:51 GMT |
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Since the Wii's becoming as scarce as a victory of the English national soccer team , we might as well sit back and wait for a second generation of Nintendo's consoles, or keep looking for bargains. 2.500 people did (look for cheap deals) at Christmas time, being "punk'd" by a British company that off... |
10 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Following the SEO news for a couple of years (which I'm assuming you have been doing), you must remember that at some point, in August 2005, Google publicly confirmed that they had penalized a site. What was so special about it was that it had been the first time ever when they came clean about it, in a trial ag... |
4 January 2008
06:18 GMT |
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No less than 3.6 million American adults have been victims of phishing scams conducted between August 2006 and August 2007, a survey made by Gartner revealed. TechConnect Magazine wrote that approximately $3.2 billion were lost, which represents a 2.3 percent increase from the previous year, when only 2.3 million peo... |
18 December 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Security experts from all over the world will have a very busy Christmas season as spammers, scammers, phishers and hackers have prepared new techniques and methods to attack computer users. Not only will they attempt to connect to their computers and access private information, but they will also conduct all sorts ... |
14 December 2007
09:22 GMT |
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This is the second phone scam of the week and I've already started thinking that these people really think they are able to steal somebody's information by asking them to provide it. In fact, they can, if the victims are naive enough to disclose it. But, let's get back to today's piece of news: a ... |
13 December 2007
06:54 GMT |
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Following the recent attacks involving social networking service, a new scam, which appears to be a threat for all of us, was reported by "The Local". According to this source, the Swedish woman was tricked to provide her financial details, which were then used by the attackers to steal her money. The entire operatio... |
12 December 2007
08:27 GMT |
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Sorin Pascu, 22-year-old, and Marius Braditeanu, both from Romania, were sentenced a few days ago, after they were arrested in July for an online phishing scam. Sorin Pascu will spend his next five and a half years in prison, while Marius Braditeanu, who was also the head of the illegal activity, got a six years in j... |
12 December 2007
05:20 GMT |
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Joanna Cieslak, 31-year-old, and Pawel Janicki, 32-year-old, are the last two victims of an online scam conducted through a web commercial. Today, Scotsman.com informs that the two Polish women agreed to pay no less than 500 pounds to an unknown person met on the web, who had promised them a home in the United Kingd... |
11 December 2007
09:19 GMT |
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OK, I admit, this is not so related to computers, but I was shocked when I first read this piece of news. You must be sick to call somebody and tell him his sister was hurt in an accident although nothing happened. You know, some people might suffer heart attacks caused by these stupid pranks. But let's get back... |
6 December 2007
16:31 GMT |
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One of the worst nightmares: buy a very expensive car through eBay and receive nothing. Not even your money. And this happened to approximately 1,000 Canadians in the last 7 years according to the CBC news. But, here's what happened a few days days ago. Shaqir Duraj, a Kosovo refugee who moved to Canada, has sta... |
4 December 2007
05:53 GMT |
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Cloudmark and YouGov conducted a new survey concerning the phishing attacks and their source, 42 percent of the respondents considering that their trust in a brand would be seriously reduced if a phishing message included the company's name. But what's more impressive is that 26 percent of the people includ... |
26 November 2007
10:13 GMT |
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In case you're one of the millions of Internet consumers who access instant messaging clients, you probably believe that this kind of application is one of the most secure on the web. Well, it isn't, no matter if you're using Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger or Google Talk. All the users who com... |
15 November 2007
15:36 GMT |
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Mark Hartman is one of the eBay registered members who like to buy things online, no matter if the merchant is living in a different corner of the world. Sure, it's a risk to buy something from a person who lives on the other half of the planet but eBay is pretty famous and popular for this kind of transactions.... |
9 November 2007
03:48 GMT |
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Salesforce.com, one of the leaders of the on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) industry offered customers contact details to phishers due to the naivety of an employee. It appears that a Salesforce employee was the target of a phishing attempt, providing access to the company's client contact informa... |
7 November 2007
13:13 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission confirmed that an avalanche of email messages claiming to be sent by the federal agency aim to steal the usernames and passwords stored on victims' computers. According to the Associated Press, the emails come from frauddep[at]ftc.gov and inform the receivers that the FTC filed a law... |
1 November 2007
07:55 GMT |
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Boy, web-scammers are definitely smart! One of their tactics is to send spam-scam e-mails to a smaller public but to make it their perfect target. For example, everyone gets spammy messages about penis-enlargement pills or devices - even women do! That's why they have quite a small effectiveness. But what if a s... |
9 October 2007
16:56 GMT |
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