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Spammers Use Video In Stock Scams
Forget the simple plaintext email of stock symbols and Buy Now messages. Some scammers have turned to video to promote their pump and dump schemes.
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Date: 2007-12-27

Storm Worm Gets Sexy For Holidays
The persistent malware pest returned in a volley of spam to thousands of email inboxes around the world.
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Date: 2007-12-26

Russians Pestered By Online Hacks Too
In 2007, Russia suffered its share of online attacks, and needed to repel over 1.4 million of them this year.
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Date: 2007-12-21

Twitter Presents Reasons To Fear It
The one-to-many model of "tweeting" a message to a broad group of people on Twitter could pose a challenge to the more highly paranoid security pros out there.
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Date: 2007-12-20

Internet Explorer Update Gets An Update
Post-installation issues caused by Microsoft's cumulative fix for Internet Explorer this month affected a "small number of customers."
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Date: 2007-12-19

Caller ID Spoofing The Next Big Threat
Some enterprising websites offer ways to spoof a Caller ID for pranking purposes. Criminals have figured out how to scam people with this spoofing in a virtually foolproof way.
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Date: 2007-12-18

Canadian ISPs Caught Up In Facebook Lawsuit
Canadian company SlickCash hammered Facebook's servers for two weeks in June, the social networking site alleged in court documents.
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Date: 2007-12-17

It's Time To Block Russia And China
Many security pros working in corporate environments routinely block access to sites on the Internet, for security reasons. The time has come to take the fight to the places that harbor spies and thieves.
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Date: 2007-12-14

Windows Vista SP1 Drops To Customers
An early Christmas present containing hundreds of fixes for the Vista operating system popped up on Microsoft's website.
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Date: 2007-12-13

Spammers Love Free Stuff
Easy registrations for free accounts on website or blog hosts, and websites with poor security, provide spammers with lots of ways to try and pull in victims.
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Date: 2007-12-12

Rogers Internet Injects Itself Into Google
A Canadian ISP has attracted attention by tucking a little bit of JavaScript into the Internet datastream to present subscriber notification messages.
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Date: 2007-12-11

Critical IE Update Arrives Tomorrow
The December 2007 edition of Microsoft's regular patch schedule has fixes for critical issues in Internet Explorer and Windows in store.
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Date: 2007-12-10

Fasthosts Hacked, Sites Taken Offline
A break-in at the UK-based site host resulted in the loss of banking information and other details to criminal hackers.
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Date: 2007-12-07

Google Search Revealed
A British man who purportedly vanished while canoing years ago, and turned up recently claiming amnesia, showed up in a photograph in a Google search.
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Date: 2007-12-06

Fake Yahoo Greetings Site Pushes Malware
Greeting card spam serving as a cover for malicious downloads has been hitting inboxes recently in the form of fake Christmas cards.
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Date: 2007-12-05

Bilked Canadian Blasts eBay Over $20K Loss
A car buyer lost a substantial sum after wiring money to someone he thought was the seller but turned out to be someone who hijacked the seller's page.
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Date: 2007-12-04

British Firms Warned Of Chinese Threat
Aggressive attacks by Chinese state organizations against business interests in the United Kingdom have the country's MI5 agency sounding an alarm.
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Date: 2007-12-03

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