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7 steps to protect against online fraud

Of the three million respondents to a SonicWALL quiz, only 7.4% answered all of the questions correctly. When asked to determine whether a suspect email was a phishing e-mail …

Conde Nast scammed out of $8 million with single spear phishing email

Conde Nast – the company that publishes popular magazines such as Vogue, GQ, Architectural Digest, Wired, Vanity Fair, and many others – has been nearly defrauded …

Phishing scam offers fake Adobe Reader upgrade

Spam campaigns that target Adobe users are rather common, but there are always some users that haven’t heard about them and fall for the scam that offers them a fake …

WoW phishing email threatens with account termination

World of Warcraft players are often targeted by phishers whose goal is to get the login credentials to as many accounts possible and bleed them dry. A recently detected one …

Things to watch out for during tax season

Most people look forward to their refunds to pay for a nice vacation or pay off some debt. But when filing your taxes online, there are a number of ways you can lose that …

Phishing HTML attachments bypass browser detection

In the constant war that goes on between online crooks and scammers and security professionals, adaptability is a quality greatly prized by all. All of them are tied together …

Anti-phishing tool detects fraudulent sites by analyzing their elements

A Hong Kong City University professor that concentrates his effort on ways for combating phishing has recently made public a piece of software that proactively detects …

Phishers target university students paying fees online

A few days ago, we wrote about a bogus university website stealing photos and content from the website of a legitimate Oregon college in order to collect application fees from …

Scam e-mails can now be forwarded to the police

Action Fraud – the UK’s national fraud reporting centre run by the governmental National Fraud Authority – has recently set up a dedicated e-mail address to …

Phishers exploit New Zealand earthquake

Natural disasters are practically always exploited by scammers, and the earthquake that hit New Zealand and left thousands of its citizens homeless is not an exception, …

Play.com customers at risk from phishing

Play.com, one of the biggest UK online retailers, has its share of scammers that try to lure users searching for a bargain and scam them out of their hard earned money. Play …

Student phishing scheme just tip of the iceberg

Students are back in their university and college seats and some of them may have enjoyed their time away from school without checking their e-mails. With perfect timing, the …

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