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Comcast starts blocking email willy-nilly - The INQUIRER

Comcast starts blocking email willy-nilly Spam voting By Nick Farrell : Friday, 21 December 2007, 10:21 AM A NEW feature on Comcast which blocks email identified as spam has been causing merry hell. In the good old days if two people decide that an email from an outfit is spam, that email will go into...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 12-21-2007
Filed under: In the News, Internet News, Spam\Phishing
Arrested mules - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Arrested mules Posted by Patrik @ 04:20 GMT | Over the last few days we've done a few posts on money mules and today it was announced that the Dutch police have arrested 14 suspected money mules for money laundry. The mules had received money from phishing scams targeting ABN AMRO using servers in...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 12-20-2007
Filed under: Internet News, Spam\Phishing, Security
McAfee Avert Labs Blog - Orkut spam worm spotted!

Orkut spam worm spotted! Wednesday December 19, 2007 at 1:25 pm CST Posted by Vinay Mahadik Trackback I analyzed some suspicious scrap “2008 vem ai… que ele comece mto bem para vc” from a bunch of friends on Orkut. For a while it was all over Orkut!! Translated to English, it reads “2008 is coming…I...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 12-20-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet News, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Computer Security Research - McAfee Avert Labs Blog - Security Cost of Social Computing

Security Cost of Social Computing Friday July 20, 2007 at 8:37 am CST Posted by Nishad Herath Trackback As recently as five years ago, most of us probably communicated electronically only through either e-mail or phone. If someone wanted to pry into these communications, they had to tap our phones, steal...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 07-23-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet News, Internet Applications, Spam\Phishing
Websense® - Security Labs Alert: Large scale European Web Attack

June 18, 2007 Malicious Website / Malicious Code: Large scale European Web Attack Websense® Security Labs™ has received reports of a large scale attack in Europe that is using the MPACK web exploit toolkit. For more information on MPACK please see the Panda Labs blog here: http://blogs.pandasoftware...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 06-18-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet News, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Viagra shop busted in Sweden - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Viagra shop busted in Sweden Posted by Mikko @ 15:33 GMT | Seven men are prosecuted in Sweden for running an illegal online pharmacy. These men are accused for running several web shops selling prescription drugs without a prescription. They started operations in 2003 and generated several million Euros...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 02-04-2008
Filed under: Internet News, Spam\Phishing, Security
SANS Internet Storm Center - PDF mailto exploit documents in the wild - Update

PDF mailto exploit documents in the wild Published: 2007-10-23, Last Updated: 2007-10-24 00:18:25 UTC by Adrien de Beaupre (Version: 2) The vulnerability initially reported here http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3406 and confirmed here (with workaround) http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3477...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 10-24-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet News, Internet Applications, Spam\Phishing, Patch Managment
Fake Jetblue eTickets - F-Secure Weblog

Fake Jetblue eTickets Posted by Patrik @ 21:32 GMT | Comment (1) The most common way a user gets infected these days is through drive-by downloads and while the prevalence of malicious email attachments definately has gone down we still see them on a dialy basis. Like today when we saw a large spam run...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 07-31-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet News, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
JavaScript Injection Attack - F-Secure Weblog

JavaScript Injection Attack Posted by WebSecurity @ 09:13 GMT | postCount('00001502'); Comment (1) JavaScript injection attacks seem to be the in thing these days . Malware writers are increasingly utilizing such attacks as a better means to spread their work. As little as a year ago, the bad...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 09-18-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet News, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Porn for Free: Puper Promises Hot Videos on YouTube - McAfee Avert Labs Blog

Porn for Free: Puper Promises Hot Videos on YouTube Tuesday September 30, 2008 at 12:41 pm CST Posted by Rahul Mohandas Trackback YouTube is an excellent resource for video sharing: Users can upload, view, and share video clips. It’s also not novel to find a legitimate web site being used as a vector...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet News, Spam\Phishing

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