Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Software developers like to make installation of their programs simple and quick. So do hackers.
Analysts at RSA Security Inc. early last month spotted a single piece of PHP code that installs a phishing site on a compromised server in about two seconds, the vendor noted in its monthly online fraud ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Spyware researchers at Webroot Software. have uncovered a stash of tens of thousands of stolen identities from 125 countries that they believe were collected by a new variant of a Trojan horse program the company is calling Trojan-Phisher-Rebery.
The FBI is investigating the stolen information, which was discovered on a password-protected ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Anybody with five bucks and a little patience may be able to score sensitive corporate data on eBay.
Organizations engaging in the common practice of disk drive recycling--selling unneeded disk drives directly or through a service--may find that company data winds up for sale on eBay's auction site, even if the ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Wondering how likely you are to have your credit card number stolen? Well, according to a comprehensive survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), identity theft is affecting millions of households in the U.S each year and costing an estimated $6.4 billion per year.
About 3 percent of all ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Microsoft has signed up three companies to add phishing monitoring and detection technology to its antiphishing filter in the MSN Search Toolbar and the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7, and its SmartScreen e-mail filter, the company says.
The software vendor has also released the final version of its phishing filter ...
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