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3-and-a-half years sentence for PayPal thief
Accused of having broken into 303 eBay and PayPal accounts and of stealing over £180,000 in total from the legitimate owners of the accounts, a person from Nottingham has …
Mubarak advance-fee fraud scam
German-speaking Internet users are being targeted by a common scam with an unusual twist, warns Symantec. The well-known 419 (or advance-fee fraud) scam template has been …
“Free Southwest Airlines tickets” Facebook scam
A new scam is targeting Facebook users and luring them in with promises of complimentary tickers from Southwest Airlines. But what makes this scam different and quite likely …
Next Mac OS X to contain “safe deposit box” with automatic cloud backup?
Speculation about the likelihood of the new Mac OS X version containing a secure folder that would automatically upload copies of the files dropped in it into the cloud have …
Phishing scam and malware distribution scheme combined
The Facebook phishing campaign spotted yesterday turned out not to be so unimaginative after all. F-Secure researchers decided to see it through and entered login credentials …
Cricket World Cup starts, scammers follow
The Cricket World Cup started on Saturday, and both the International Cricket Council and various security experts are issuing warnings to fans regarding likely cyber scams …
Libya practically offline, bit.ly still working
As Libya descends into a vortex of protests and violent retaliations for the same – courtesy of the country’s long-lived president Muammar al-Gaddafi – the …
Vulnerability allows phishing messages on RapidShare.com
An improper input validation vulnerability discovered recently by M86’s researchers could be used to create phishing messages targeting RapidShare users. The discovery …
Can employers demand access to your Facebook account?
Most people consider their Facebook profile and its contents private and sacrosanct, but sometimes companies don’t agree with this assessment. The latest instance of …
Ambitious malware variant signed with fake digital signature
New Zeus variants and spam campaigns that try to spread them far and wide are almost a daily occurrence, but once in a while some get more attention by security researchers …
A lesson to learn from the HBGary breach
As you might have already read, the HBGary and rootkit.com breach by Anonymous was not executed by using obscure techniques or unknown vulnerabilities – quite the …
Facebook users targeted by unimaginative phishing campaign
A phishing campaign targeting Facebook users is currently under way and lures users with messages coming from compromised accounts seemingly containing links to various …
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