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
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Would you look at that? Spyware has just cranked it up a notch! Now you don't need to have an Internet connection to get your data phished. Spyware can be inserted directly into the keyboard. So for those of you that yanked out the network cable when they felt hackers attacked, this keyboard just renders that ac... |
10 September 2007
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Gregory Thomas Kopiloff is nobody you've heard of, but he's a vicious cyber-criminal that used LimeWire to help him steal a lot of money from accounts. He had stolen the information from teenage-children-operated computers that had Limewire installed, as SMH informs. So this is what he did - he installed th... |
7 September 2007
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Facebook is a huge online social networking directory, so it contains a lot of data that hackers would like to phish and now they're doing something to make malicious users' life easier.They have a new project, through which they want to make the information public. What does that mean? Well, say your name ... |
5 September 2007
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eBay is one famous site, that's for sure. And being high-profile as it is and also containing a large amount of personal and financial data it is only a natural thing that it has been attacked by hackers. I don't know if you've noticed, but small sites rarely suffer from hacks. Sure, some get a little ... |
5 September 2007
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Michael Dolan was 18 years old in 2002 when he first hacked AOL. For 4 years, he had used all sorts of malicious software upon America Online users. He has been arrested in September 2006. I read this piece of news on Sophos, and I have to say that the tactics he used were pretty much standard phish-and-cash-in schem... |
23 August 2007
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MySpace has just shown that it really takes care of its registered users. Recently, they rooted out a spammer by suing him in court. The MySpace people filed a lawsuit against spammer Sanford Wallace that was using MySpace for his own financial purposes. What he did was send a lot of messages to MySpace users, trying... |
22 August 2007
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