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Article | 12/11/2012 McAfee: Web users should watch out for holiday scams
Web users and people shopping online during the upcoming holiday season should watch out for a new crop of scams, some of them targeting users of mobi...
Article | 6/11/2012 Hundreds of Google Play apps create spoofed messages in users' SMS inboxes, Symantec says
About 200 Android applications currently hosted on Google Play create spoofed SMS messages on the devices they are installed on, according to security...
Article | 22/10/2012 Spammers abuse .gov URL shortener service in work-at-home scams
Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for ...
Article | 9/12/2011 UK police arrest six in student loan phishing scam
U.K. police arrested six people on Thursday for allegedly running a phishing scam that stole an estimated £1.6 million (US$2.6 million) from victims w...
Article | 7/10/2011 SpyEye steals banking codes by sending them to wrong phone
Researchers from browser security vendor Trusteer have identified a new variant of the SpyEye financial Trojan that tricks online banking users into c...
Article | 4/10/2011 Facebook turns to Websense for malicious URL detection
Facebook has partnered with security vendor Websense to protect its users from third-party malicious URLs spammed on the social networking website, th...
Article | 27/09/2011 Romania's anti-cybercrime efforts lack a social component
Romania has long been considered a hotbed for cybercriminal activity, but in recent years law enforcement authorities have made significant efforts to...
Article | 6/09/2011 PlayStation scam makes FBI warning list
Sony PlayStation users are being warned by the FBI about scams targeting them and other online consumers.
Article | 24/08/2011 A TouchPad for $US49? Maybe if you're Rick Astley
With geeks still scrambling to get their hands on the last of Hewlett-Packard's US$99 TouchPads, a $US49 deal just seems too good to be true.
Article | 29/07/2011 US phisher who hit 38,500 gets long prison sentence
A California man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison Thursday for his role as the brains behind a widespread phishing scam that took ...
Article | 12/07/2011 UK claims cybercrime victory after phishing gang sentencing
U.K. cybercrime investigators claimed victory with the sentencing of three men on Monday following the prosecution of an organized phishing gang.
Article | 28/06/2011 Man sentenced to 13 years in Operation 'Phish Phry'
A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for managing a phishing operation in conjunction with Egyptian hackers that looted consumer...
Article | 24/06/2011 Twitter scam claims to get you more followers
A scam that has been making its way around Twitter for some time has resurfaced recently and promises to increase a user's followers, but really gives...
Article | 28/05/2011 Not even security managers immune to FakeAV infection
Can you believe it? As I sat down this morning to write this column, I got hit by a drive-by download of FakeAV.
Article | 27/05/2011 Everything you need to know about Mac scareware
You'd think it was the end of the world.