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RSS scammersKeeping Your Members Safe From Online Scams and Predators
White Paper Security is a major challenge for internet dating sites, which can attract scammers, spammers, stalkers and predators, not to mention fraudsters there to mine other members' identities. Each year, more and more people... [13 Nov 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News If the scammers' structure sounds like a clever marketing operation than a criminal scheme, that's no surprise: most scareware operations are closer to business than they are to gangster rackets, according to Wall. [19 Oct 2009]
Scammers pose as banks in live chat hack
News Online scammers have created a phishing site masquerading as a US-based bank that launches a live chat window where victims are tricked into revealing more information, researchers at the RSA FraudAction Research Team... [18 Sep 2009]
Hackers target fake ads to steal IDs
News By sneaking fake ads onto a high-profile site, the scammers are likely to net more victims than by targeting smaller sites. Scammers "come in looking like one thing. The malware can include Trojans, back... [16 Sep 2009]
Taxman's scam warning: Fraudsters want your passwords
News According to HMRC, a "small number" of users have had their details and passwords compromised by scammers, who made fraudulent tax refund claims through the account, hoping to route the refunds into their own pockets. [06 Aug 2009]
Bank phishing fraudsters learn to spell
News Phishers aiming to defraud banks have raised their game - and at the very least have learned to spell - according to the banking executives tasked with stopping them. According to David Shroyer, Bank of America senior vice president of... [23 Apr 2009]
Virus attacks rise: It's because you're too clever
News The use of scareware and exploits that take advantage of common file formats like PDF, Excel and Word rose in the second half of last year as online scammers realised people are getting smarter about recognising spam and... [08 Apr 2009]
Fake bomb-scare scam explodes on email accounts
News The scammers are using IP address geolocation techniques to figure out what city the recipient lives in and are localising the fake bomb news to that location. Security experts warned on Monday of a new insidious email... [17 Mar 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.02.09
Round-Up But no, the minister hadn't been careless with his cash - instead it appears scammers had got access to his email account and were responsible for the begging messages. As the world plunges deeper and deeper into... [27 Feb 2009]
Best Practices: Protecting Against the Growing Threat of Phishing Scams
White Paper Finally it provides a list of practical steps that each employee can take when using the Internet to help foil the scammers. Phishing threats are growing in sophistication and are potential impacts to Small and Medium... [20 Jan 2009]
Phishers cash in on credit crisis
News The scammers are gathering the information to sell to cyber criminals who will use it to transfer money out of victims' accounts or commit identity fraud, he said. Phishers and scammers commonly exploit... [03 Oct 2008]
Virtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News Scammers also are increasingly attracted to virtual worlds, where they have numerous ways of trying to steal private data for fraud. The in-game economies of virtual worlds are being hijacked by criminals who attempt to... [28 Aug 2008]
Editor's Blog: An everyday tale of e-crime
Comment For example, of the possibly apocryphal case of a company being targeted by phishing scammers who were trying to trick their way into the network. Nothing odd in that. Except that - while it had his address on it - it... [13 Mar 2008]
Spammers switching on to YouTube?
News As users become wary of certain file attachments, scammers will move on to their next tactic. Email security company MessageLabs has warned that spammers are already modifying their tactics when it comes to the emerging... [30 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.06.07
Round-Up Because this shocking statistic of course means there is a still a huge untapped market for scammers to target with their cleverly crafted (and sometimes not so cleverly crafted) emails. Good news for all would-be cyber... [22 Jun 2007]
