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[MarketingCharts] This draw to mass market appeal means brands and applications, like Adobe, with large user bases or high adoption rates are more likely to be targeted for phishing scams. In its biweekly fraud prevention newsletter, The Fraud Practice listed the top five reasons that Adobe in particular is a popular application with operators of phishing scams.

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[Information Security Resources] Google, Adobe, and Big Oil Under Attack! : Information Security ...: Other traits that may be found in an Advanced Persistent Threat attack are spear phishing “C” level executives and others to gain access to their systems, and employing zero-day exploits.

[ProfitBrite] Cyber Hackers Can Mess With Google - Are You Afraid For Your ...: If you have been reading the news lately and picking up on all the commotion around hack attacks on some of the big guns like Google, Yahoo and Adobe you may be experiencing a twinge of anxiety over the security for your own business. ...

[HTMLHelp Forums Full Feed] Phishing scam targets PC users of Adobe PDF Reader - HTMLHelp Forums: You might want to read the MacWorld article Phishing scam targets PC users of Adobe PDF Reader Now that you are warned, be careful where you click (IMG:style_emoticons/default/excl.gif). User is offline PM.

[Littlefish IT Support] PDF Phishing Scam Warning from Adobe | Littlefish IT Support: There might be an urgent need of IT Support if IT connectivity users ignore Adobe's warning. It seems that masterminds of Internet attacks have come up with yet another pishing scam that involves the IT company.

[Windows 7 Forums] Phishing scam targets users of Adobe PDF Reader: The phishing scam has a subject line "download and upgrade Adobe PDF Reader – Writer for Windows," includes a fake version of Adobe's logo and provides links that would lead to malicious code or other trouble if a victim clicked on them.

[BBB Blog RSS Feed] New Phishing Scam Targets Adobe Reader Users - U.S. BBB: are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate the guidelines, terms of use or privacy policy governing this site.

[Catawba County Government - PSA] Catawba County Government - PSA » Blog Archive » Phishing Scam ...: The phishing scam has a subject line “download and upgrade Adobe PDF Reader - Writer for Windows,” includes a fake version of Adobe’s logo and provides links that would lead to malicious code or other trouble if a victim clicked on them.

[BBB Blog RSS Feed] New Phishing Scam Targets Adobe Reader Users: Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 by Elaine Roxane Winter.

[Truedomain Blog] Phishing News of the Week - 12 February 2010: Lastly, more and more reported spear-phishing attacks.  Three universities, a doctors association and a climate economist were all victims of precision targeted attacks.

[IBM Internet Security Systems Frequency X Blog] Frequency X Blog: While some phishing scams target logins and passwords, others attempt to entice victims into entering detailed personal information by posing as government institutions. By industry, 61 percent of phishing emails purport to be sent by financial institutions, whereas 20 percent purport to come from government organizations.

[Truedomain Blog] Phishing News of the Week - 5 February 2010:  This time Adobe and Twitter grab top honors for the highest profile attacks of the week.  Not many details about the fallout from those attacks yet, but the fact that phishers are casting their nets outside of the traditional target areas is cause for concern.

[The Security Blog» Latest InfoSec Threat Research & News | TheSecurityBlog.com] Please Queue Here For The Next Phish - Security Threat Research News: Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data AnalystFinancial organizations undergo frequent changes from the point of view of their customers, whether it’s a change to security processes, takeovers, re-branding, new products and so on. Phish emails often contain generic messages like ‘Account Suspended’

[MadMark's Blog] Phishing, SQL Injection Attacks Surged in 2009 « MadMark's Blog: Hackers continued to have great success taking advantage of vulnerabilities in applications, such as Adobe Acrobat, and Web browsers to compromise unsuspecting users’ machines or data, according to IBM’s annual X-Force Trend and Risk Report.

[DarkReading - All Stories] Twitter Gives Details On Phishing Attack - phishing/Attacks ...: "It appears that for a number of years, a person has been creating torrent sites that require a .Description:Cross-domain vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 10.0.45.2, Adobe AIR before 1.5.3.9130, and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x before 8.2.1 and 9.x before 9.3.1 allows remote attackers to bypass intended sandbox .

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