PayPal phishing campaign hits inboxes
PayPal users should be on the lookout for phishing e-mails with “Please confirm your identity” in the subject line supposedly coming from the service: The download …
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 …
Spyware compromises 150,000+ Symbian devices
A new variant of spyware “Spy.Felxispy” on Symbian devices causing privacy leakage has recently been captured by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response …
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 …
41% of organizations not aware of security risks
41 percent of organizations are not well aware of or protected against IT security risks, according to McAfee. Another 40 percent are not completely confident they can …
BIND Denial of Service vulnerability
A vulnerability has been reported in BIND, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service, according to Secunia. When an authoritative server …
A single click can open door to cybercrime
Blue Coat Systems unveiled their 2011 security report that examines Web behavior and the malware to which users are most frequently exposed. The report analyzes Web requests …
“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 …
Entrust credentialing services smartcards earn Microsoft certification
Entrust credentialing services and related smartcard technology have earned full Microsoft certification for demonstrating hardware compatibility with the company’s line …
Windows 7 SP1 released
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is now available to everyone for download and rolling out via Windows Update. For Windows 7, SP1 will help keep PCs well supported by delivering …
Antivirus engine ClamAV 0.97 released
ClamAV is an open source (GPL) antivirus engine designed for detecting Trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats. It provides a high performance mutli-threaded …
Scan-on-demand virus detector for industrial computers
Hagiwara Sys-Com announced the Vaccine USB, a portable virus detection tool for Windows OS-based industrial systems. In the past, industrial systems were built for specific …
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