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Instant Messaging IM Worms - Get the Facts 2008-05-13 21:05:07 You’ve taken this course in internet safety and learnt all that there is to learn about how to avoid viruses and worms. You have installed advanced virus scanners, so nothing can pass through your email program and infect your Operating System, nor be downloaded from the internet or from a removable medium. You have installed [...] Read more:Messaging
, Worms
US Tax Rebates Phishing Scam 2008-05-13 20:44:59 The scams rely on a technique known as social engineering to trick computer users into divulging personal information that the cybercriminals or their customers can use to bilk unwary taxpayers.
The new phishing scams use spam e-mails to gull prospective refund recipients into providing their bank account information and other personally identifiable data via a fraudulent [...] Read more:Rebates
Phishing and ScamPages Kits 2008-05-13 10:43:51 Panda Labs posted a report about a string of Phishing kits discovered recently, which unlike some of their better known counterparts are free to use. The news is not groundbreaking, but it does serve as a reminder that nowadays anyone can get in to the act of performing criminal activities online.
Panda Labs is reporting on [...]
Gasoline spam hits inboxes 2008-05-13 01:29:22 A new type of spam focuses on consumers’ frustrations with high gas prices, according to McAfee Avert Labs.
The emails begin by complaining about the rising cost of gas and then direct the reader to a website, with the promise the “product” will save the user 70 cents per gallon. The spam also mentions this [...] Read more:Gasoline
Zango Removal Instruction - Spyware Alert 2008-05-12 04:00:33 Zango is an adware which monitors the web sites and URLs that you visit, and generates popup adverstiments every few minutes.
Instruction
to remove Zango from your pc
1. Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs
2. Find Zango on the list
4. Click the Change/Remove button
5. Check the component(s) you wish to [...] Read more:Alert
, Removal
, Spyware
DefCon Contest: Defeat Anti-Virus Programs 2008-05-12 00:28:06 A new contest running at the DefCon hacker conference this year (held in Las Vegas in August) is already stirring up controversy. It will challenge hackers to design malware that can’t be detected by anti-virus programs such as ones offered by Symantec and McAfee.
The contest is dubbed Race to Zero, which refers to zero-day exploits [...] Read more:Contest
, Programs
What Is Pagejacking? Preventing Pagejacking 2008-05-12 00:15:53 Web surfing offers many different kinds of experience – the useful and the redundant, the profitable and the idle, the regular and the bizarre. And certainly one of the strangest experiences is when you try to visit a familiar page and suddenly find yourself on a completely different one, related or unrelated to the page [...]
Protect Yourself from Identity Theft 2008-05-11 22:42:27 Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in cyberspace. In real life social situations, your identity cannot easily be stolen because you are identified by your appearance, your voice, your manner of speech, your habits and so on. Anyone who knows you should be able to tell at once whether it is you or some [...] Read more:Protect
, Yourself
MySpace Wins $230 Million from Spam King Sanford Wallace 2008-05-14 23:08:57 Spam king SanfordWallace
and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace
accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports.
MySpace decided to sue when it discovered the duo had lured MySpace users [...]
Worms Spread Via MSN Messenger - W32/MSNworm.EI.worm 2008-05-14 11:08:42 W32/MSNworm.EI.worm, which spreads via the MSN Messenger
and displays a funny picture of a little pig sending you a kiss while it is infecting your computer.
MSNworm.EI is a worm whose main objective is to spread and affect as many computers as possible. The means it uses to spread is the instant messaging program MSN Messenger.
Additionally, [...] Read more:Spread
, Worms
Cyberstalking - How to Stay out of Danger 2008-05-15 22:00:07 Cyberstalking has recently made its place among the most notorious and destructive crimes that involve the use of the internet. And not unlike real life stalking, it is also perhaps the most terrifying.
Cyberstalking occurs when a person is able to gain personal information about you through the internet and online sources, and then uses that [...] Read more:Danger
PayPal Plans to Ban Unsafe Web Browsers 2008-05-18 18:56:03 PayPal announced plans to ban older and unsafe Web browsers in an effort to provide anti-phishing protection with the use of EV SSL certificates.
PayPal, the world’s largest online payment service, announced on Thursday that it is working on a plan to block users from making transactions from unsafe Web browsers.
PayPal released a white paper that [...] Read more:PayPal
Spyware Blocker - How to Combat Spyware 2008-05-18 05:58:10 One thing is certain. You have to fight spyware, there is no alternative. You cannot leave the issue aside, you cannot say that, “let it stay the way it is.” I mean, you can always say that if you like, but the risk might be a bit too high. You live the issue as a [...] Read more:Spyware
MySpace Sexual Assault Lawsuit Dismissed 2008-05-17 01:46:58 A federal appeals court has ruled that MySpace
.com is immune from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site.
The Texas girl’s family had sued MySpace and its parent company, News Corp., claiming that MySpace didn’t protect young users from sexual predators.
Girl’s [...] Read more:Assault
, Lawsuit
, Sexual
Protect Your Online Privacy - Useful Tips 2008-05-21 21:55:27 Tips and guides to protect your online privacy when you are surfing the net - When you venture online, the markers of your identity shrink greatly, and you are known only by your digital, electronic signatures. Any one who can mimic these can claim to be you, and wreak havoc on your financial affairs. That [...] Read more:Privacy
, Protect
, Useful
TypePad Open Source AntiSpam for Blog 2008-05-30 04:34:12 Six Apart is launching a new free open source product into beta called TypePad AntiSpam
. While the product is new, the technology behind it has been used by Six Apart since May 2007 on millions of hosted TypePad blogs.
What’s TypePad AntiSpam?
A free, open source system powered by TypePad for blocking comment spam on any site, [...] Read more:Source
Wi-Fi Hotspots Vulnerable to Computer Hackers 2008-05-30 04:15:19 The FBI recently issued an alert warning that wireless Internet networks, often called Wi-Fi hotspots, are more vulnerable to hackers than most users probably realize.
Often the security of the free public networks is low and this setting make it very easy for a hacker working from anywhere around the world to use computer codes to [...] Read more:Computer
, Hackers
, Hotspots
, Vulnerable
Internet Explorer vs Opera vs Mozilla Firefox 2008-06-10 21:45:51 When you want to surf the net, you click on the blue ‘e’ on you desktop. That’s all there is to it. Why should you have to choose a browser? And is there a choice at all? Isn’t the word ‘browser’ synonymous with ‘InternetExplorer
’?
With the recent spate of browser-related security incidents all over the world, [...] Read more:Firefox
, Internet Explorer
, Mozilla
, Mozilla Firefox
FTC Wants Spyware Distributors Pays 2008-06-15 03:13:28 The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that the power to invoke civil penalties on spyware distributors would aid in deterrence.
Eileen Harrington, deputy director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said enforcement options, such as seeking consumer redress or making the operators give up their ill-gotten gains, [...] Read more:Spyware
Computer Spying to Catch a Cheating Spouse 2008-07-06 22:42:06 By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - A lot of relationships, particularly those with men or women who have weak bonds with each other, tend to get ruined or at least marred with discrete online affairs. If you have glaring suspicions about the online habits of your partner, you may want to try spouse computer spying [...] Read more:Catch
, Cheating
, Computer
, Spouse
How to Remove? Spyware Quake Removal Step 2008-07-03 21:39:41 By Spyware
News (www.spywarenews.org) - SpywareQuake
is part of a new breed of adware/scam hybrids that act as trojans and infect systems via email spam or website scripts. Once infected, SpywareQuake bombs the user of the computer with fake security notification pop-ups, telling them that their computer is infected. Once the pop up is [...] Read more:Removal
NebuAd, The Reincarnation of Gator Adware? 2008-06-30 20:17:27 By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - It would seem that NebuAd, the behavioral targeted advertising protocol used by some Internet Service Providers, is basically like a version of Gator
that works at the ISP level. For those of you too young to remember, Gator is one of the frontrunners of spyware/adware distribution a few years ago. [...] Read more:Reincarnation
Zango Lays Off A Third Of Current Workforce 2008-06-30 03:01:07 By Spyware News - According to a recent press release by Zango, the famous adware company has recently terminated the employment of 68 out of the 200 plus people that comprise its total workforce. The lay offs were done as a means to streamline and narrow the company’s goals and focus, hot on the heels [...] Read more:Current
, Workforce
Virus, Trojan Creator - Turkojan 2008-08-04 03:12:18 By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - Malware creators and third party trojan programs are not a new thing. Ever since the days of Sub7 and its ilk, novice hackers have already used freeware tools and programs that were created by other more experienced cyber criminals. But with the advent of the Trojan
Creator named, Turkojan, [...]ShareThis
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