The all time increasing reports of business losing millions of dollars at the hands of organized cyber criminals may force commercial banks to take more stringent measures to protect customers. Last month Brian Krebs interviewed Robert C. Drozdowski, a senior technology specialist with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) . From the interview it seems that the banking regulators have [...]
twitter_bird_follow_me Good news for all Twitter Users (the good ones ) . They have just launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users . Part of the New Anti Phising Tool is a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs, so users will see some links in e-mail notifications and direct messages [...]
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The anatomy of a greeting: Just opened the mail in the morning and I see in the junk folder an interesting message. It appeares that someone sent me an e-card, too bad is not my birthday. The mail looks like this: Carol has sent an e-card. Your Greeting card will be available at: hxxp://greetingcardcalendar.com/ID=?-XXXXX..X- This card was sent from 123greetings.com! [...]
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Subject: FW: VERY VERY URGENT PLEASE READ AND FORWARD READ AND HEED PLEASE INFORM EVERYONE Emails with pictures of Gordon Brown actually smiling are being sent and the moment that you open these emails your computer will crash and you will not be able to fix it! If you get an email along the lines of Gordon Brown smiling or [...]
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