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[SC Magazine] Commonwealth Bank phishing scam changes its MO > Email Security ...: Cluley said that Sophos does not have any indication of whose behind this, but what is clear is that this isn't the first time the attack has been modified. This past weekend, the domain used in the phishing site in Monday and Tuesday's attack was used in a banking phishing campaign, targeting the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Cluley said.

[Hack In The Box] Australia in top 10 for phishing attacks :: Hack In The Box ...: The number of hosted phishing attacks in Australia jumped up, placing us in the top 10 for country hosted attacks. The United States topped the list, hosting 43 percent of the world’s phishing attacks, while the United Kingdom ranked 2nd, hosting 17 percent of the world’s total attacks.

[The Red Tape Chronicles] Why phishers love Facebook - The Red Tape Chronicles - MSNBC.com: FACEBOOK MAKES IS MORE DANGEROUS BY STAYING CONNECTED TO PEOPLE WHO CANCEL THEIR ACCOUNTS AND DONT WANT EMAIL FROM THEM, AND BY NOT ALLOWING USERS TO CANCEL PEOPLE WHO LEAVE OR JUST BECOME CREEPY -- WHICH IS WHY I LEFT IN THE FIRST PLACE. FACBEOOK CAN FIX THAT SPAM-HOLE, BUT IT PREFERS TO KEEP NUMBERS OF USERS UP AND RUNNING.

[CIO.com - Mobile] Twitter Gets Targeted Again By Worm-Like Phishing Attack - CIO.com ...: Most URLs posted in Twitter have been shortened using services such as TinyURL in order to fit in the 140-character message length that Twitter imposes, obscuring the real destination and making users dependent on the trustworthiness of their friends when clicking links. The service was hit by other worms earlier in the year.

[Macworld news] Australian Macworld: Apple provided no additional details about those changes in the release notes, but confirmed that this update addresses a previously reported incompatibility between QuickTime 7.4 and Adobe After Effects. According to a separately posted note on Apple's web site, QuickTime 7.4.1 also includes a security improvement that can prevent a malicious web site from causing an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.

[Latest articles from SC Magazine US] Another round of phishing hits Twitter - SC Magazine US: The latest scam involved messages coming from a site called “TwitterCut,” which were posted to users' Twitter streams and purported to guarantee an increase in the number of their followers. But once the link was clicked, the victims were directed to a site that requested them to login with their Twitter credentials.

[blogs.swarthmore.edu] blogs.swarthmore.edu » Blog Archive » Phishing via Facebook (i.e. ...: Clicking on the link (or previewing it) will redirect you to a malicious site which impersonates the Facebook login page in an attempt to steal your Facebook credentials. In addition, many of these malicious sites will attempt to silently infect your computer.

[World Latest News - fast and latest news] Phishers start angling for Facebook, Twitter | World Latest News ...: “Phishing and spam will continue to increase on social networks as users migrate large portions of their Internet activity such as e-mail to these properties,” said Govind Ramamurthy, chief executive and managing director of MicroWorld Technologies, an anti-virus, anti-phishing solutions provider.

[Latest articles from SC Magazine US] Bank of America certificate scam propagating Waledac, Virut - SC ...: Waledac-infected computers can receive instructions on functions to perform, such as updating malware components or sending information from the infected computer, Joshua Perrymon, CEO of security firm PacketFocus told SCMagazineUS.com in an email Monday. He added that this type of multi-layered email attack -- in which the phisher is not only grabbing users login information and but also placing malware on the machines -- have been around for a while, but are on the rise.

[McAfee Avert Labs] Computer Security Research - McAfee Avert Labs Blog: It’s advisable to visit banking-related websites using only your bookmarks. In the second step of today’s attack, cautious users may have picked up on the deception if they noticed that the sign “Secure Area” did not complement the nonsecure HTTP URL.

[The Gaea News] Phishers start angling for Facebook, twitter: “Phishing and spam will continue to increase on social networks as users migrate large portions of their Internet activity such as e-mail to these properties,” said Govind Ramamurthy, chief executive and managing director of MicroWorld Technologies, an anti-virus, anti-phishing solutions provider.

[ZDNet Asia Latest Tech News] 'Best Video' scam on Twitter dropped malware : News : Security ...: Twitter users were hit with another attack over the weekend featuring tweets reading "Best Video" and a link to a Web site that downloads malware, a security firm said on Monday. The Web site, with a .

[F Schumacher's Technology for Business] F Schumacher's Technology for Business » Worms, Viruses, Trojans ...: Trojan Horse - programs named for the fabled “Trojan Horse” of Greek mythology, the program creates a “back door” for illicit access when the PC is infected. Once infected, the program grants access to the PC for a person, or program to take over certain aspects of the PC, usually for the purpose of stealing data, attacking, exploiting or spamming other PCs on the Internet.

[Counter Measures] Tvviter Typosquatting Phishing Site » Counter Measures: [...] the creation of bogus Twitter accounts, which the scammers used to “follow” other users, says Rik Ferguson, a senior security advisor at security-software maker Trend Micro. If these users checked out the profiles of their new followers and clicked on the Web addresses [...]

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