Global Security Watch > May 29, 2010
Update on Security Advisory 981374 - The Microsoft Security ...
[The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)] This is a critical and time intensive step of the process as the update must be tested against affected versions of Internet Explorer on all supported versions of Windows. Additionally, each supported language version needs to be tested as well as testing against thousands of third party applications.
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Pseudo-science and airport security - Boing Boing
[Boing Boing] The Pomona College student who was detained by airport security after they found Arabic flashcards in his carry-on luggage was originally pulled aside for questioning because of Screening Passengers by Observation Technique (SPOT), .
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May 29, 2010
Update on Security Advisory 981374 - The Microsoft Security ...
[The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)] This is a critical and time intensive step of the process as the update must be tested against affected versions of Internet Explorer on all supported versions of Windows. Additionally, each supported language version needs to be tested as well as testing against thousands of third party applications.
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Posted at 02:34 PM
Pseudo-science and airport security - Boing Boing
[Boing Boing] The Pomona College student who was detained by airport security after they found Arabic flashcards in his carry-on luggage was originally pulled aside for questioning because of Screening Passengers by Observation Technique (SPOT), .
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Posted at 02:33 PM
May 27, 2010
Identity Theft 101 | Identity Theft Tips
[Identity Theft Tips] We cannot rely on other people to protect us from identity theft. It is something that we should do alone as the only person that is better placed to help us shield ourselves from identity theft is also, ourselves.
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Surveillance photos released in identity theft case | Identity ...
[Identity Theft Protection Tips] Buffalo News Two people are being sought for questioning in an identity theft case involving a credit card, State Police said this afternoon. The card was used at a Kwik …
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May 25, 2010
Sacto 9-1-1: Identity theft leads to state prison setentence
[Sacto 9-1-1] Investigators determined that James Moos, 41, victimized his 88-year-old grandmother, stealing cash advance checks from her residence, then kiting them through bank accounts of other victims, according to a news release from the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office.
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Posted at 02:09 PM
Identity theft?
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May 22, 2010
Language Log » Gone phishing
[Language Log] Little things like punctuation do matter: the rules of Standard English punctuation may be inherently trivial conventions, unimportant compared to the semantic content of a text, but the sort of people who get jobs communicating with the public on behalf of reputable Dutch courier companies (as opposed to running a backstreet phishing operation off an old PC and a cell phone in a Lagos slum) can generally punctuate correctly. And when male, they generally aren't called Ellen.
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Posted at 02:33 PM
Phishing | Fraud Prevention
[Fraud Prevention] Whether via email, Facebook, or text messages, phishing still presents a threat. Learn.
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May 20, 2010
Facebook, number 4 most popular phishing attacks target
[ePagini News, Articles,Opinions and Reviews] The percentage of spam phishing emails in the first trimester is 0.57% higher than the total volume of traffic of emails Spammers learned how to exploit the new Internet platforms like blogs or social networks for their own goals. The saturation of the “Spam market”, is at around 85.2% of the total internet traffic for the first three months of 2010.
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Posted at 02:34 PM
Phishing: not just for attacking banks - Computerworld Blogs
[Computerworld Blogs - Applications] Next week: the final part in my series on sender reputation. If you'd like to catch up on the previous parts, click below:
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May 18, 2010
Phishing Alert of Navy Federal | PandaLabs Blog
[PandaLabs Blog] Everything you need to know about Internet threats.
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Posted at 02:13 PM
» 10 Ways To Prevent Phishing - Blogger News Network
[Blogger News Network] The Anti Phishing Working Group published a new report seeking to understand such trends by quantifying the scope of the global phishing problem, especially by examining domain name usage and phishing site uptimes.
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Posted at 02:12 PM
May 15, 2010
Lifelock Identity Theft Protection : Fight Identity Theft
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Posted at 02:34 PM
What Is Identity Theft? - Financial Web
[finweb.com] One of the most common methods of identity theft is to open a credit card in someone else's name. With this technique, a thief can obtain a credit card application in your mailbox or in your trash and use it to apply for the credit card.
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Posted at 02:33 PM
May 13, 2010
Teachable Moment in Phishing Education « Silver Tail Blog
[Silver Tail Blog] This gives the impacted consumer the education about phishing at the most timely moment. In addition, it gives the APWG statistics on which phishing campaigns are the most lucrative (as far as victims), the number of potential victims, the life of a campaign, etc.
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Posted at 02:33 PM
“Avalanche” Gang Responsible For Two Thirds Of Phishing Attacks ...
[The Firewall] In fact, the report's authors believe that the group may be a reincarnation of another phishing gang thought to be based in Romania known as "Rock Phish," which existed from 2006 to 2008 and innovated several new techniques. One, known as "fast flux," a method of moving a domain quickly between host computers to prevent its detection, was also used by Avalanche.
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Posted at 02:32 PM
May 11, 2010
India tops in originating spam, phishing in Asia: Report
[Daily Kerala News] “The scale of these web-based attacks originating from India and other countries makes security in the virtual world a major challenge requiring global cooperation between vendors, intermediaries and users,” Symantec India managing director Vishal Dhupar told IANS here.
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Posted at 02:05 PM
India tops in originating spam, phishing in Asia: Report | News-Views
[News-Views] With the highest density of netizens, Mumbai figured at the top, with 50 percent of the country’s bot-infected computers, followed by Delhi at 13 percent, Hyderabad seven percent, Bangalore six percent, Kochi five percent, Chennai four percent, Pune three percent and Ahmedabad two percent.
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Posted at 02:04 PM
May 08, 2010
Security Firm Makes Noise About Microsoft Silent Patching ...
[Security Watch] I was too thick at the time to see that this meant that there were bugs and circumstances under which Microsoft would issue fixes and not document them: when they can use those patches to make an existing update "comprehensive" and when the circumstances described in the 2 bullet points are not met. Their explanation of the current circumstances seems to match the policies quoted just above, at least as they tell it.
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Posted at 02:34 PM
Global Voices in English » Jordan: Public Security Directorate ...
[Global Voices in English] Jordan: Public Security Directorate text message. Posted 8 May 2010. Written byKatharine Ganly. Countries, Jordan. Topics, Humor. Languages, English · Jordan. Kinzi receives a text message starting “If you value your life”¦ ...
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May 06, 2010
vici blog » Blog Archive » Phishing-Based Scams: A Couple of New ...
[vici blog] Despite the sad fact that about 5% of phishing attempts are successful for fraudsters, PC users are getting more cautious about bogus e-mails asking for personal and/or financial information.
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Posted at 02:34 PM
Alert: Adobe Security Update Email Spam/Phishing Scam - Adobe ...
[Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT)] Many of these emails are signed as "James Kitchin" from "Adobe Risk Management" (or similar). In these messages, recipients are directed to download instructions as well as a security update to address "CVE-2010-0193 Denial of Service Vulnerability" (or similar).
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Posted at 02:33 PM
May 04, 2010
Phishing - what is going on here? - Tech Support Forum
[Tech Support Forum] Once I cleaned the virus IE and Opera would no longer connect to the internet and gave a proxy related error. Of course, that was because the virus had installed an executable that was acting as a local proxy, and when it was removed the proxy was no longer available.
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Posted at 02:06 PM
PayPal New Phishing Scam | TechJaws.com
[TechJaws.com] The claim that there is a problem with the recipient’s account is nothing but a scam to try and fool a person into submitting PayPal account details to Internet criminals. Any information entered on the bogus form can be collected by criminals and used to hijack the user’s PayPal and credit card accounts.
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