Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Security experts are warning Twitter users of a new phishing scam that could lead to their accounts being compromised.
The typo-squatting site, which was discovered by Rik Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro, has been set up by phishers to look like Twitter, although the URL uses only two 't's ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
A list of thousands of user names and passwords for Comcast customers was removed from document sharing Web site Scribd on Monday, two months after it was posted there.
Scribd removed the list of more than 8,000 passwords and user names after being contacted by Brad Stone at The New York ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
US-CERT is aware of public reports indicating that phishing scams are circulating via fraudulent U.S. Internal Revenue Service emails offering users stimulus package payments. These emails include text that attempts to convince users to follow a link to a website or to complete an attached document. The website and document ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
IE8 and Google Chrome both have a great feature that helps users detect phishing websites by highlighting the root domain when you browse to a page. You can get this functionality in Firefox with an add-on called Locationbar that is available here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4014
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Although the two most-recent builds of Firefox 2.0, labeled 2.0.0.19 and 2.0.0.20, have omitted the defense, earlier editions of the browser were still able to query Google for a list of sites suspected of hosting identity theft scams. But Google is now shutting down the blacklist, said Mike Beltzner , ...
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