email scams
RSS email scamsThe Importance of FortiGuard Web Filtering as Part of a Multi-Threat Security System
White Paper Productivity, accessibility and conveniences of the World Wide Web have spurred network-borne viruses, worms, trojans, identity theft, and Internet scams. With millions of applications and world wide access to... [13 Nov 2009]
A Psychological Analysis of Common Email Scams
White Paper The very large number of unsolicited marketing messages reaching Email users on a daily - if not hourly - basis is more than bothersome for most recipients and staggering when considered in aggregate. [12 Nov 2009]
Tax-refund phishing scams hit an all-time high
News This is the third warning the HMRC has issued about online tax refund scams this year. The second warning came in July, ahead of the deadline for tax credit renewals, when the number of reported scams... [16 Oct 2009]
Scammers pose as banks in live chat hack
News Meanwhile, the "chat-in-the-middle" phishing attack, as RSA has dubbed it, is being hosted on a fast flux network that criminals pay to use that hosts malicious websites and other tools for online scams. [18 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up It warns that "criminal gangs" are running phishing scams that promise recipients a tax refund. Presumably, as soon as they work out how many of the emails are actually scams and how many are actually... [24 Jul 2009]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News Also on the cybercrime panel was San Jose police sergeant Edward Schroder, who talked about how he spends his time investigating fraud related to sites like eBay and Craigslist, Nigerian or lottery scams, and money mule... [13 Jul 2009]
Improved Phishing Detection Using Model-Based Features
White Paper This paper evaluated features derived from emails with respect to their ability to detect phishing scams. In addition it successfully tested approach on a non-public email corpus with a real-life... [01 Jul 2009]
Attachment Spam - The Latest Trend: Spammers Using Common File Formats as Attachments for Pump and-Dump Scams
White Paper By using these attachments to send images instead of embedding them in the body of the email message, spammers have taken the cat-and-mouse game with anti-spam software developers to a new level. This white paper... [01 Jul 2009]
Understanding the Value of Outsourcing Network Security Services
White Paper But today's security experts need to be well versed in spyware, intrusion detection and prevention, phishing, web scams, identity management, compliance reporting and patch management - as well as any new type of threats... [20 Jun 2009]
Worms lure Facebook users to fake site two days running
News To protect against phishing scams, Facebook users should make sure that the URL they are visiting says www.facebook.com. Once Facebook learns of a phishing attack, either by members notifying the company or employees... [01 May 2009]
Why you should hack your own systems
Comment They are being exploited to convert trusted websites into malicious servers that can launch client-side exploits that are usually delivered via a web page or an email, such as in phishing scams. In this... [22 Apr 2009]
Everyone needs a summer holiday - even phishers
News Fraud detection company Envisional, which monitors a number of global banks, film studios and big brands, found nearly half a million separate phishing email scams were sent to bank customers over the... [24 Oct 2008]
Email Traffic: A Quantitative Snapshot
White Paper Not only have spam and viruses taken their toll on business networks, but fraud and phishing scams, designed to hijack financial and personal consumer information from the Internet, have become so prevalent and damaging... [20 Feb 2008]
Security experts slam HMRC over data loss
News Armstrong predicted a likely outcome of this week's revelations will be a rash of phishing scams, where fraudsters will try to trick bank details out of people already worried about the data breach. He said: "Even if the... [22 Nov 2007]
Storm botnet 'services' for hire?
News Oddly enough, Storm isn't doing much, so far, except gathering strength," he wrote, adding that: "Aside from continuing to infect other Windows machines and attacking particular sites that are attacking it Storm has only been implicated... [17 Oct 2007]
