Phishers Drop MySpace Bait

Monday, June 9th, 2008

TrendLabs Content Security has come upon a new phishing attack that leads to the download of malware. However, unlike most instances where phishing baits are usually banks, credit unions or other financial institutions, this time it uses the popular social networking Web site MySpace.com. The phishing URL may be contained in ...

Posted in Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security | No Comments

Opera Bolsters Web Browser With New Malware Protection

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Opera has beefed up security in its upcoming Web browser as it looks to challenge Firefox and Internet Explorer in the area of Web security. Putting a bulls-eye on Web-based threats, the Opera has formed a partnership with Haute Secure, a Seattle-based security vendor founded in 2006, to protect users from ...

Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments

Beauty contest winner becomes latest victim of online fraudsters

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

IT security and control firm Sophos is reminding computer users about the risks of identity theft and online fraud following news that Jade Saunders, the current beauty contest winner in the British seaside town of Scarborough, has fallen foul of an email phishing scam. The twenty year old student, who was ...

Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments

Phishers Target New Victims on LinkedIn

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Users of the professional-oriented social networking site LinkedIn are being warned that scam artists are using the site to nab lucrative bank account information from naive victims, say security experts. Advanced fee fraud -- also known as "419 scams" after the relevant section of the Nigerian penal code -- have become ...

Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments

Shmoocon 2008 videos are now online

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

The videos from ShmooCon 2008 have hit the shelves. Go download them at: http://www.shmoocon.org/2008/videos/ EDIT: As of the time of this post, some of the videos are incorrectly named. Here is the 1-> 1: Correctly Named: 21st Century Shellcode for Solaris Advanced Protocol Fuzzing - What We Learned when Bringing Layer2 Logic to SPIKE land Backtrack ...

Posted in General BS, Security | No Comments