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Cyber attacks rising 15% annually
Published December 5, 2008, 2:51 am, Business Standard India
The number of cyber attacks, including viruses, worms and frauds, is rising by over 15 per cent annually with many of them doubling, according to Gulshan Rai, director of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), a nodal agency for the security and protection of critical infrastructure.
Trojan horse phishes for bank accounts
Published December 5, 2008, 2:22 am, The Inquirer
Egan Orion the Inquirer , Friday 5 December 2008. 01:06:00 Under Firefox ONLINE INSECURITY firm BitDefender has detected a new variant of phishing malware that targets only Firefox users. The malicious chunk of code can infect a user's system either via a 'drive-by download' that exploits a browser vulnerability or with a 'download dump' through duping the wibbler into authorising its ...
Web attack might have guided by phishing trap
Published December 5, 2008, 2:17 am, TechWorld
Assault on CheckFree prompted by earlier scam. A phishing campaign in October may have given criminals the information they needed to seize control of payment processor CheckFree's Internet domain this week.
E-mail scams take new twist
Published December 5, 2008, 2:09 am, Green Bay Press-Gazette
MADISON The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau is urging consumers to be skeptical of e-mails that look like theyre from legitimate shipping companies.
Mozilla kills anti-phishing in Firefox 2.0
Published December 5, 2008, 1:22 am, PC Advisor
Google urges Mozilla to drop SafeBrowsing Mozilla is to drop anti-phishing protection from the final update to its Firefox 2.0 browser, after Google warned that the feature runs on an obsolete protocol.
Network Solutions Phishing Came Before Web Attack
Published December 5, 2008, 1:17 am, PC World
Security experts say a phishing campaign may have allowed criminals to gain control of CheckFree's Internet domain.
Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?
Published December 5, 2008, 12:29 am, ZDNet
* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...
Don't let ID theft ruin holidays
Published December 5, 2008, 12:09 am, Poughkeepsie Journal
NEW YORK - 'Tis the season to be jolly, but shoppers both online and in the malls shouldn't let their guards down while hunting for gifts. A slight slip-up and they may give away more than they bargain for, identity theft experts say.
Phishing Email Warning
Published December 4, 2008, 11:27 pm, WEAU Eau Claire
The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau is urging consumers to be skeptical of e-mails that look like they're from legitimate shipping companies.
Cell scam targets La. residents
Published December 4, 2008, 11:24 pm, The News-Star
Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of northeastern Louisiana residents were targets of a phishing scam through their cell phones on Wednesday when they received text messages saying that their VISA check cards had been compromised.
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