Social networking users seem very interested in finding out who among their contacts have deleted, unfriended, or otherwise blocked them from communicating. A new phishing attack is taking advantage of this curiosity, offering to let users of MSN Messenger instant-messaging service find out if they've been removed from friends' contact lists.
The deadline for U.S. taxpayers who have accounts with foreign banks is September 23, and spammers can’t let the date slip by without at least trying to leverage it to extract financial information from e-mail users.
A malicious worm is winding its way through older versions of WordPress, infecting posts with spam and malware that gets downloaded when readers visit them.
Despite the hard work that spammers put in to coming up with new campaigns this summer, Symantec says the amount of spam sent in August decreased 2 percent to 87 percent of all e-mail messages.
Most people in the IT industry know the difference between Nortel, the ailing Canadian telecommunications company, and Norton, the brand of security software from Symantec named after its creator Peter Norton. But not everyone who surfs the Web does.
Mozilla doesn’t just want to encourage users have the most current version of Firefox installed, it also is launching on a campaign to persuade users to upgrade popular browser plug-ins.
Security researchers are looking into not just how Koobface infects users’ PCs, but how its creators manage to spread the worm across popular social networking sites to maximize its effectiveness.
Security researchers have found a new type of Trojan malware that listens to and records VoIP calls made via Skype.
The malicious code, called TROJ_SPAYKE.C, is able to intercept Skype traffic after a call is initiated but before it is encrypted, according to a post on Trend Micro’s malware blog. The fact that Skype encrypts traffic, and therefore is viewed as safer than traditional phone calls, is one reason why so many people use it.
This malware could change that.
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.
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