Email links to Dalai Lama’s genuine website, but attachment is malicious. Taking advantage of international concern regarding the daily demonstrations in Myanmar, IT security and control firm Sophos has cautioned computer users to be wary of a malicious email which claims to be a message of support for monks and other protesters in Myanmar from the Dalai Lama. In reality, however, it carries a malicious attack designed to infect the recipie… read more »
But it will not be a complete overhaul, says Google. A refresh of Google’s free email service GMail is likely to be available soon, although it will not be a complete upgrade, Google has confirmed. Rumours of a new GMail surfaced on the web last week after plans were reportedly leaked. However, Google insisted that the changes would not constitute an entirely new version.
“We will never do a complete overhaul,” said Robert Solimene, Europea… read more »
October 1st, 2007 in
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Poor detection of the MPack data-theft toolkit by anti-virus software has allowed it to run riot on the Internet, a new analysis from Finjan has claimed. The company says that the malware system has been used to successfully infect 500,000 consumer and corporate users since it appeared some months ago, achieving unusually high infection rates of 16 percent from an attack profile of 3.1 million web-borne attempts.
To make matters worse, as of 29 J… read more »
Security vendors have warned email users to be as vigilant about PDF attachments as they would for other documents, after seeing a sharp rise in spam embedded within PDF documents. Email security vendor Messagelabs reports that PDFs made up 20 percent of image-based spam messages in July, up 10 percent on the month prior. Image-based spam makes up around 22 percent of total spam, the company said.
The security company believes attackers are using… read more »
The Greeting Card Industry and the FBI have warned consumers about an e-card scam as many email messages are making their rounds. The modus operandi of the cyber crooks masquerading as the players from the greeting card industry is sending a phishing mail with subject as a “friend” or “classmate” and taking users to their fraudulent website when clicking a link in the email.
Generally such e-mails originate from unnamed i… read more »
July 27th, 2007 in
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newsnow.co.uk
Your Web mail account is a treasure trove of private and potentially valuable information–and thieves know it. In an online interview, one phisher claimed to make thousands of dollars every day by breaking into people’s E-mail accounts and searching for messages that contain financial details.
Normally you can’t tell whether you’ve been hacked in this way. Even if you cannily leave a juicy-sounding e-mail unread, a thief o… read more »
July 27th, 2007 in
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newsnow.co.uk
If you’ve had enough spam (unsolicited electronic commercial marketing messages sent in bulk using services such as email messaging as described in New Zealand’s anti-spam laws) you’re not alone. This is a big subject, so we’ll give you a few ideas to minimise spam in your life. Spam costs us all big time.
It’s annoying and time consuming and it increases the chance that we’ll miss or delete a legitimate email… read more »
July 25th, 2007 in
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newsnow.co.uk
Spammers are using the popular file format - Microsoft Excel - to dupe users, a messaging security firm reported has discovered. Israel-based Commtouch said on Monday it is tracking a new trick in which spammers send messages with Excel attachments that contain the latest pump-and-dump stock scams.
“Excel is a natural progression after the recent spate of PDF spam, which itself is a natural development from basic image spam,” said Ami… read more »
Stricter spam-filtering regulations were put into place Friday to prevent some new types of spam from getting into GatorLink e-mail inboxes, said John Bevis, an assistant director at UF Computing and Networking Services. For students flooded with spam in the past few weeks, this may come as a welcome relief. Spam and e-mail scams have become such a problem that the FBI put out a press release last week warning the public about certain types of fr… read more »
July 24th, 2007 in
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Experts warn that criminals are using this summer’s big books and films as means to churn out spam and worms to victims. Spammers and cybercriminals are exploiting movie-goers with junk emails and viruses riding on the back of this summer’s blockbusters. While news of Harry Potter spoilers circulate the internet, spammers are also exploiting interest in the Simpsons Movie out next week. Spam is flooding recipients’ inboxes with … read more »
July 20th, 2007 in
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