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Virtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News There are also phishing attempts and messaging spam luring members to malicious sites for "free" games. The in-game economies of virtual worlds are being hijacked by criminals who attempt to hide their profits through... [28 Aug 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News Spam emails are often used in phishing attacks or to deliver malware it says, distributed by networks of compromised botnet computers which are also used for denial of service attacks.... [06 Jun 2008]
Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes
News Soca has also sent out 46 alerts to UK business, which included 11 alerts to UK financial institutions detailing more than 46,000 online account details that had been compromised by phishing and virus... [15 May 2008]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News Kelly explained the hack attacks included non-specific threats, such as edge-of-network penetration attempts and application flaw exploits, and more specific threats such as phishing... [23 Apr 2008]
UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent
News Phishing email attacks on the UK have gone up by 200 per cent this year, the UK payments association Apacs has warned. Online banking fraud losses decreased a third from £33.5m in 2006 to £22.6m in 2007... [16 Apr 2008]
Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit
News The key security threats facing businesses range from mutations of established methods - such as malware or phishing - to less well-known ones, such as metasploit releases and 'pass the hash' attacks. [09 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News The report states "66 per cent of phishing attacks in the US were directed towards social-networking sites". The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963... [09 Apr 2008]
UK businesses: No one cares about cyber attacks!
News A higher proportion of small companies (those with less than 50 staff) and employees working from home are falling victim to phishing and spyware attacks than larger companies. Cyber crime targeting... [09 Apr 2008]
Banks under attack: Phishing on the rise
News Phishing attacks on banking organisations and their customers across the globe has increased steadily over the last six months, according to the latest fraud report from security software specialist RSA. [18 Mar 2008]
Police backs calls for e-crime unit
News Gareth Griffiths, head of UK risk management for online payment service PayPal said a dedicated unit would help his company tackle the increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks that cost it millions... [12 Mar 2008]
e-Crime Crackdown - silicon.com launches national campaign
News Compounding this shortfall is the fact that Soca focuses mainly on computer crime linked to major international drug and people smuggling and fraud - leaving everyday phishing, hacking, distributed denial of service and... [12 Mar 2008]
eBay warns of Romanian phishing threat
News Along with Romania, China and Russia were also pinpointed as the source of the majority of phishing emails targeting eBay users for personal and account details. Speaking at the e-crime congress in London, Lee said... [10 Mar 2008]
UK banks targeted by phishing attacks
News Leading UK banks have been targeted by online criminals who used Storm botnets to unleash phishing attacks. RSA analysts warn the Storm botnet could now be used as the infrastructure behind a new surge... [15 Feb 2008]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News Salesforce.com first noticed a possible security breach when it saw a rise in phishing attacks directed against customers "a couple of months ago". Salesforce.com is refusing to reveal details of a... [08 Nov 2007]
Security threats evolve again
News Speaking at the RSA Conference Europe 2007, Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development for the Windows Core Operating System Division at Microsoft, said: "It shouldn't come as any surprise that as we improve the security of the... [24 Oct 2007]
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