Archive for the ‘Spoof Email or Phising’ Category
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports.
MySpace decided to sue when it discovered the ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
The scams rely on a technique known as social engineering to trick computer users into divulging personal information that the cybercriminals or their customers can use to bilk unwary taxpayers.
The new phishing scams use spam e-mails to gull prospective refund recipients into providing their bank account information and other personally ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Panda Labs posted a report about a string of Phishing kits discovered recently, which unlike some of their better known counterparts are free to use. The news is not groundbreaking, but it does serve as a reminder that nowadays anyone can get in to the act of performing criminal activities ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in cyberspace. In real life social situations, your identity cannot easily be stolen because you are identified by your appearance, your voice, your manner of speech, your habits and so on. Anyone who knows you should be able to tell at once whether ...
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