New spam: Your bank has failed, download this Trojan
Spam that tells victims their bank has failed urges them to on a link that will tell if their accounts are insured but that really tries to trick them into downloading a Trojan that will turn their machine into a bot.
Help Twitter Fight Spam
Twitter has had its share of problems with spam. Fraudulent IDs, worms, you name it ... and it's just getting worse. Before now, users could fight back using a few helpful steps or reporting profiles to an @spam mailbox. Now Twitter has introduced a handy tool to combat the raging army of spam.
Scammers exploit public lists of hijacked Hotmail passwords
Scammers have grabbed the Hotmail passwords that leaked to the Web and are using them in a plot involving a fake Chinese electronics seller to bilk users out of cash and credit card information, a security researcher said today.
Can you trust that Hallmark e-card?
It seems like a day doesn't go by that I get a Hallmark e-card in my e-mail, and every last one of them has been spam message bearing malware or an attempt to get me to link to a malicious Website. Here's how to tell the real cards from the bad ones.
Spam, malware dominate online user comments, Websense reports
A staggering 95% of all "user-generated comments" for blogs, chat rooms and message boards online are spam or malicious, according to a new Websense report on security threat trends.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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