Scammers have already started exploiting people's interest into yesterday's deadly attacks in Norway's capital, Oslo, and the island of Utøya.Events that get international coverage, whether natural disasters, tragic accidents, terrorist attacks, etc., are favorite topics for scammers as they pro... |
23 July 2011
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VideoLAN, the organization supervising the development of the VLC open source media player is calling out for help from the community to stop scammers who bundle malware with its popular program."At VideoLAN we’re really fed up with all those websites/companies that are tricking our users to download malware an... |
16 July 2011
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Scammers are looking to profit from the Google+ buzz and are luring users to rogue surveys with promises of free invites to the new social networking platform.Since Google+ launched at the beginning of this month it has experienced extraordinary growth and has already reached around ten million users.The ability to i... |
12 July 2011
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Security researchers warn about scams leveraging news of the earthquake that hit the northeast coast of Japan yesterday, leading to renewed fears about the unstable situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.A 7.1 magnitude earthquake believed to be an aftershock of the one that generated a devastating tsunami ... |
8 April 2011
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Security researchers from Sophos warn of localized scams on Facebook which trick people into liking spam pages by employing clickjacking techniques.Clickjacking, also known as user interface (UI) redressing, is a type of attack where programming methods are used to make an element invisible and super-impose it over a... |
22 February 2011
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Security researchers warn that cybercriminals are trying to capitalize on the Super Bowl buzz and a lot of scams and spam campaigns are to be expected.Antivirus vendor PC Tools quotes a comScore report from last year, according to which, as much as two thirds of people intended to go online on Super Sunday to gather ... |
6 February 2011
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A lot of scams promising full downloads of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 1" have popped up online, following news that part of the upcoming movie was leaked."Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" is the first part of the final installment of the Harry Potter film series and is one of the most an... |
17 November 2010
06:29 GMT |
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Security companies warn that affiliate marketing spammers have already began exploiting Halloween to trick people with fake prizes, contests and offers.It's a known fact that cybercriminal activity always intensifies around holidays, when people are more vulnerable and have more money to spend."Halloween is draw... |
20 October 2010
12:53 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that scammers are trying to exploit people's interest into the new Halo Reach game in a variety of ways.Firs of all, there seem to be a lot of phishing attacks targeting XBox Live accounts on the official Halo forums, which are maintained by the game's developer over at Bungie.net.... |
24 September 2010
12:30 GMT |
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Over the years, we, the general public, have been exposed to various types of stories, coming from different individuals, claiming to be suffering from terminal illnesses. While some of these cases are painfully true, some are not, and they originate from people who just pretend to be sick. These individuals engage i... |
18 February 2010
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The National Consumers League (NCL) has recently announced that Americans are currently more at risk of falling victims to scams and frauds, on account of the global economic downturn and the fact that many of the country's citizens are now broke and looking for easy money. And, apparently, so are various types ... |
27 February 2009
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Hackers and phishers don't rest until they devise a new scheme, by which they can force honest web users into giving them their personal information. A number of phishing schemes have recently been reported that appear to use a scenario based on recent worldwide events. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has re... |
13 May 2008
07:12 GMT |
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Falling for online scams is one thing, but putting together statistics about it is plain cruel. Who wants to bask in the other's misery when his own bank account has been emptied in the same way? Be that as it may, the number is big enough to require some professional care, and that's why the Australasian C... |
28 February 2008
17:06 GMT |
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A survey conducted by GetSafeOnline.org shows that older men are more likely to be targeted by cyber-criminals than women the same age. At the same time, they are incomparably more in danger of falling for scams overall than the people aged 25 - 34.Internet dating is like the Roman god Janus, it has two faces. There&... |
11 February 2008
05:43 GMT |
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Online gaming has become very popular as of late, especially MMORPGs (massive multiplayer online role playing game) and to be honest, I think that this just might be the future of gaming, as it is way more fun to battle human intelligence than AI. In any case, whenever something is popular it gets the attention of ha... |
12 September 2007
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