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The holiday season brings out the best in online scammers. CNET runs down common schemes to beware of, courtesy of McAfee: Fake delivery invoices: They look like legit emails from UPS, Federal Express, and the like, asking for address confirmation...
Tags: Christmas, christmas shopping, christmas gifts, christmas scams, delivery invoices, Fake delivery invoices, Holiday e-cards, Charity phishing, Fake friend requests, Christmas carols, Luxury jewelry offers, Better Business Bureau, Better Business Bureau Logo, Facebook, Charity, credit card, Los Angeles, Holiday, Malware, Social engineering, Spamming, Phishing, allnews
Kristen Stewart may cook a mean spam , but you don't want to taste her phish. Internet scammers are taking advantage of Twilight fans and the rise of New Moon with an increased number of viruses, spywear and phishing schemes.
Tags: Los Angeles, New Moon, Twilight, Phishing, Malware, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Technology Internet
C ybercriminals take advantage of the holiday season, aiming to steal consumers' money, identities and financial information. As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee has revealed the 12 most dangerous online scams that...
Tags: McAfee Labs, holidays season, McAfee VirusScan, web sites, credit cards, persons information, christmas carol, India, Mumbai, Social engineering, Rogue software, Spyware, Phishing, Microsoft Security Essentials, Spamming, Malware, Antivirus software, Technology Internet
The next world war could take place in cyberspace, the UN telecommunications agency chief warned Tuesday as experts called for action to stamp out cyber attacks. "The next world war could happen in cyberspace and that would be a catastrophe. We have...
Tags: world war, ITU, Estonia, Tallinn, Cyberwarfare, Electronic warfare, Military technology, Hamadoun Tourᅢᄅ, Phishing, Politics, Computer crimes, Cyberspace, International Telecommunication Union, Technology Internet
A clotheshorse racked up thousands of dollars in mystery charges on a friend’s credit card ...Someone took out a car loan in your colleague’s name and stuck her with the bill. Identity fraud has been on the rise, as criminal cunning may be mixing with...
Tags: credit cards, LifeLock, identity fraud, identity theft, Kemesa, cards number, New York, Phishing, Opera, Online shopping, Antivirus software, Credit card, Malware, Technology Internet
Internet banking password login Exploitation of websites is changing and experts say there's no end in sight, writes Charles Arthur. The email from Google in June was the first sign: it warned that the Free Our Data site seemed to be host to a set of...
Tags: spam links, web pages, web security, Google, Los Angeles, Nimda, Malware, Password, Website, Spam, Spamming, Phishing, HTTP cookie, Technology Internet
Consumers on the mid-north coast, the south coast and in Dubbo have been targeted by scammers over the past few days, Fair Trading Minister Virginia Judge says. "This is a phishing scam which attempts to trick people into providing sensitive personal...
Tags: fair trading, banking details, Australia, Dubbo, Bank, Office of Fair Trading, Fee, Advance-fee fraud, Social engineering, Spamming, Phishing, Business Finance
As the feeling that the bad boys of the internet are all in the West and that phishing attacks are a rarity in India gets a beating with every passing day, the market for online domain security and validation is witnessing an uptick. According to Murali...
Tags: India, Thiruvananthapuram, Phishing, Computer network security, Authentication, Online banking, Extended Validation Certificate, Social engineering, Identity management systems, Spamming, Business Finance
The United Nations is defending the removal of a poster criticizing China's censorship of the Web at an Internet conference. Free speech advocates from the OpenNet Initiative had placed a poster at the Internet Governance Forum decrying what they called...
Tags: China, Egypt, Cairo, Electronic warfare, Military technology, Phishing, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hacker, Computer crimes, Cyberspace, Cyberwarfare, Technology Internet, Internet censorship, LINKdotNET, Content-control software, Internet activism, OpenNet Initiative, Mars rover, NASA, Spirit rover, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars exploration
Beep" goes the text message alert on your cell phone...It's not even that nifty service that sends you sports scores, or the latest news update from The Frederick News-Post. It's a blurb from a company trying to get you to call a number and surrender...
Tags: Frederick Watchdog, Darlene Balderson, cell phones, Frederick News-Post, City of Frederick, Frederick, Vishing, Spamming, Text messaging, Mobile phone, Phishing, Fraud, Social engineering, Telephony