Tag Archives: Spam
Beware of Valentine’s Day Phishing Scams
Love is in the air and cyber criminals are licking their own lips in hopes to steal personal information from users. Here’s information on what you need to know in order to keep your personal information from getting into the wrong hands. Phishing scams are very popular during holidays and cyber criminals have no prejudice [...]
Full StoryBeware of Extended Auto Warranty Spam
In the last few days I received a number of emails from the same sender, claiming to offer Extended Auto Warranty. There are three problems with this email that are obvious; It is spam ( I received 5 in the last two days) The online form on the web site is unsecure, meaning your information [...]
Full StoryNorton Security Unethical Affiliate Marketing
There’s an email purporting to be from Norton Antivirus, notifying users to renew and or update their current Norton Security software. The links in the email go to an affiliate web site that is sending out spam to customers who have never opted in to receiving notifications from the web site. In fact, I am [...]
Full StoryVBulletin Account Registration Spam
If you currently manage or moderate a forum such as the popular VBulletin, you may have noticed a spike in account registrations over the last week or so. These accounts all have something in common; they end with a sequence of numbers. The number sequences end with the following numbers; 140 156 256 1453 1988 [...]
Full StoryUnethical Online Loan Email Spam
This is the perfect time of year for criminals to launch their devious scams. I recently received this email spam, claiming to offer unsecured loans, but the links in the email go to a shopping site instead. The site is rated dangerous by WOT (Web of Trust) and has low reliability. If you click on [...]
Full StoryFacebook Password Changed Email Comes with Malware
There’s an email purporting to be from Facebook, claims that the users password was changed due to security reasons. This attack was originally reported by the security firm Sophos. The email messages come in a variety of subject lines including “Facebook Service”, “Facebook Support”, “Your password has been changed”, and “Your account is blocked.” The [...]
Full StoryBlogs Targeted By Cyber Crooks
If you’re one of the lucky blogs that have a good Pagerank and Alexa ranking, your blog could be in danger. In most cases, bloggers work hard to obtain good ranking scores and cyber crooks look for those same ingredients to target attacks. Cyber crooks are using Black Hat SEO to create backlinks to malicious [...]
Full StorySocial Network Scams and Fakes
The popularity of sites such as Facebook and MySpace have spawned malicious imitators. The main tactic they use to peddle their scams is “social engineering”. Wikipedia has a good definition: “Social engineering is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. While similar to a confidence trick or simple fraud, the [...]
Full StorySpam Bots On The Rise Again
It didn’t take long (2 weeks) after the McColo host company was shut down for the world’s biggest spammers to get back online and start updating all their bots, a recent report by FireEye revealed. This means that all the time we’ve enjoyed with less spam is over now that the Srizbi botnet – responsible [...]
Full StorySpam Gang Shut Down
The closure of a web hosting firm that is believed to have had spam gangs as clients has led to a drastic reduction in junk mail. Two US internet service providers have pulled the plug on the firm McColo following an investigation by the Washington Post newspaper. Anti-spam firm Ironport has seen junk mail levels [...]
Full StoryMySpace Affecting our Teens
There are many ways to win a popularity contest and MySpace isn’t one of them. It’s a site mostly made up of teenagers that are in a race against other peers on who has the most friends, and who is the coolest. It could lead to bigger issues like sharing too much information or too [...]
Full StoryMalicious Email Spam on the Rise
The amount of spam containing dangerous attachments designed to infect PCs with malicious viruses increased by eight times between July and September this year, according to Sophos. The security firm said one in every 416 email messages received between July and September was spam compared to just one in every 3,333 emails between April and [...]
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