US Tax Rebates Phishing Scam

May 14, 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 identifiable data via a [...]

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Phishing and ScamPages Kits

May 13, 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 online. Panda Labs is reporting [...]

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ZoneAlarm ForceField – Clones Your Web browser to Help Prevent Damage

May 13, 2008

Sometimes even the most protective phalanx of antivirus, antispyware and antiphishing programs is not enough to shield a computer from online dangers. Check Point Software’s ZoneAlarm ForceField provides an extra defensive layer by cloning your Web browser to catch dangerous software before any damage can be done. Rather than providing a magic bullet to stop [...]

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Gasoline spam hits inboxes

May 13, 2008

A new type of spam focuses on consumers’ frustrations with high gas prices, according to McAfee Avert Labs. The emails begin by complaining about the rising cost of gas and then direct the reader to a website, with the promise the “product” will save the user 70 cents per gallon. The spam also mentions this [...]

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Zango Removal Instruction – Spyware Alert

May 12, 2008

Zango is an adware which monitors the web sites and URLs that you visit, and generates popup adverstiments every few minutes. Instruction to remove Zango from your pc 1. Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs 2. Find Zango on the list 4. Click the Change/Remove button 5. Check [...]

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Microsoft Overestimated Windows Vista Security

May 12, 2008

Since Vista’s release last year, Microsoft has hailed the operating system’s security features. Some have even claimed the operating systems would make anti-virus software obsolete. PC Tools took that opportunity to examine Microsoft’s claims, and conducted research over six months with 1.5 million of its customers using its ThreatFire Anti-Virus Software. If a threat occurred [...]

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DefCon Contest: Defeat Anti-Virus Programs

May 12, 2008

A new contest running at the DefCon hacker conference this year (held in Las Vegas in August) is already stirring up controversy. It will challenge hackers to design malware that can’t be detected by anti-virus programs such as ones offered by Symantec and McAfee. The contest is dubbed Race to Zero, which refers to zero-day [...]

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What Is Pagejacking? Preventing Pagejacking

May 12, 2008

Web surfing offers many different kinds of experience – the useful and the redundant, the profitable and the idle, the regular and the bizarre. And certainly one of the strangest experiences is when you try to visit a familiar page and suddenly find yourself on a completely different one, related or unrelated to the page [...]

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Protect Yourself from Identity Theft

May 12, 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 it is you or some [...]

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Linux Viruses

May 12, 2008

Are you afraid of ghosts? If yes, then chances are that you’ll be afraid of Linux viruses too, because there is an inherent similarity between them. Neither of them exists. In that sense, this article is rather similar to a ghost story – it is about something that sounds sinister enough to make you afraid, [...]

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