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RSS email scamsIntelligence Briefing - Latest Security Trends Plus New Phishing Threats
White Paper New intelligence brief focuses on growing Internet usage trends and fraud - plus tools for fighting email scams. Learn how to stay ahead of threats and maintain robust organizational security by analyzing: most recent threats from first quarter... [02 Apr 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 that government regulations... [19 Feb 2008]
Ensuring Email Security: The Benefits of Using a Perimeter-Based Managed Service
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 that government regulations... [19 Feb 2008]
You've got mail - but is it safe?
White Paper The challenge for organizations today is to stay ahead of the increasingly interconnected threat from rapidly spreading viruses and spam campaigns, phishing scams and spyware attacks. The challenges faced by organizations in maintaining information... [12 Dec 2007]
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 data on the CDs [sent by an... [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 in some... [17 Oct 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 12.10.07
Round-Up Podcast High tech toys, digital downloads, chips for cigarettes and bizarre email scams are all up for discussion in the latest instalment of the Weekly Round-Up podcast. Steve Ranger hosts and is joined in the studio by Natasha Lomas, Tim Ferguson and... [12 Oct 2007]
Yahoo! cracks down on eBay phishers
News Typically, the phishing scams masquerade as emails from trusted financial sources and direct a recipient to a website where they're asked to enter their username and password. The DomainKeys system works by verifying the domain of the sender of the... [04 Oct 2007]
Security pundits warn on mind tricks
News The vendor worked with University of Leicester forensic psychologist Professor Clive Hollin to analyse why users fall for online scams. Users who fall for scams are not necessarily technophobes or the innocent, said the psychologist. [27 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.06.07
Round-Up Barrett added: "The good news is that just two per cent of people in the UK have fallen for these scams. Good news for all would-be cyber criminals: nearly half the people in the UK don't know what a phishing email is. [22 Jun 2007]
Stock spam slumps
News Separate research by security vendors McAfee and Marshal Software suggests that the industry is winning the war on spam, with two of the most common forms of spam-related scams on the decline. The scam, often linked to mafia criminal groups, has... [22 Jun 2007]
Is Skype secure enough for businesses?
Comment While Skype's strong encryption prevents interception and eavesdropping, the software is still vulnerable to the vishing (phishing scams over VoIP) and social engineering threats that email and telephony also suffer from. [02 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.03.07
Round-Up Hundreds of 419 scams merrily dance past Microsoft's lame-duck filtering each and every day, accompanied by Korean spam, offers of miracle 'enhancements' (ahem), pump-and-dump stock tips, college diplomas and every other kind of spam you can think... [09 Mar 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.02.07
Round-Up The OFT claimed: "The lottery scams awareness campaign is also supported by Camelot which runs the National Lottery and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. In fact, according to the Office of Fair Trading around 500,000 people fall victim to these... [23 Feb 2007]
PayPal users to get pass-code device
News These prevalent scams typically use fraudulent websites made to look like legitimate sites and spam email to trick people into giving up their personal information such as login names and passwords. The key fob is meant as another weapon in the... [12 Jan 2007]
