Oops, Fake Google Invites Users To Go Phishing
If scammers could spell, they'd really be dangerous, especially when Google's asleep at the wheel. The latest scam utilizes an actual Google Calendar invitation in an attempt to dupe recipients into providing their Gmail passwords and birth dates. The email comes from someone with the user name "customer varification."
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Date: 2008-12-30
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Top Cybercrimes of 2008
It was unfortunately a big year for cybercrooks. 2008 brought one major hit against spammers-the shutdown of McColo Corp. where as much as 75 percent of the world's spam was hosted. That was short-lived though, and spam levels rose again as cretins scattered to new locations, punctuating a year marked by malware breakthroughs.
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Date: 2008-12-19
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Spam Volume Predicted To Rise In 2009
It has been five years since the CAN-SPAM act was signed into law, but spam volumes are predicted to rise slightly higher than 95 percent in 2009 as the growing use of botnets continues to spread, according to a report from Web security firm Barracuda Networks.
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Date: 2008-12-16
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Report: Laid-Off IT Workers Will Go Rogue In 2009
Security company Finjan is predicting a rise in cybercrime in 2009, stemming especially from poor economic conditions. Though cybercriminals have already started exploiting the public's fears, Finjan's prediction adds a new dynamic: the rise in cybercrime will be facilitated by laid-off IT workers.
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Date: 2008-12-15
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Zero-Day IE7 Exploits Missed On Patch Tuesday
Despite a record-breaking Patch Tuesday this week-28 patches across 8 reported vulnerabilities in one swipe-Microsoft managed to miss a couple. This has resulted in a zero-day exploit, originating from China, of Internet Explorer 7 on supported editions of Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, and Windows Server 2008.
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Date: 2008-12-11
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It’s Office and Web Bugs Month, Everybody
Microsoft released eight security patches today, the highest number of patches released in a single day since the company started Patch Tuesday. Presumably, changing the name to Patches Tuesday makes the event sound too cutesy.
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Date: 2008-12-09
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Obama Gets Cybersecurity Bailout Proposal
Every bank in the world, the Big Three Automakers, and soon the cybersecurity industry. A bipartisan commission beseeches President-Elect Obama to set aside $30 billion for securing cyberspace and tougher regulations after both the government and the market failed to protect critical industry sectors like finance and infrastructure.
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Date: 2008-12-08
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Beware The Scareware
"Scareware" sounds like a marketing term for a Halloween costume. It's not, it's a trendy new term for malware posing as security warnings in order to dupe the user into downloading a virus.
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Date: 2008-12-05
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Web 2.0 the Malware Target of the Future
Thanks to aggressive community action and law enforcement spam levels and phishing attacks were fewer in 2008, but Symantec's MessageLabs warns in its Intelligence 2008 Security Report that Web-based attacks and targeted Trojans show no sign of slowing down.
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Date: 2008-12-04
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Merry Christmas, You're Infected
It's no surprise spammers and hackers have already launched Christmas-themed attacks; just as certain as testy crowds at the mall, they capitalize on whatever the current cultural meme may be. McAfee warns the latest attempts at infection come cloaked in familiar, legitimate labels.
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Date: 2008-12-03
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Having Some Backup Is Important
Data loss can be inconvenient and embarrassing, or it can be devastating. Only about eight percent of small and medium-sized businesses haven't backed up their data in any way, but half of the respondents to a Symantec survey have lost data.
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Date: 2008-12-01
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