New Twist In Online Pharma Scams

Online scammers are re-scamming Internet pharmaceutical customers with a new ploy: posing as government agents and extorting money from them, says the US Food and Drug Administration. Read the full article. Info Security...

Google Doodle Caught in Malware Scams

On Tuesday, clicking on the illustration on Google’s front page commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Esperanto’s creator L. L. Zamenhof, generated an awful lot of malicious search results — taking visitors to dodgy advertisements or pages that tried to trick visitors into thinking...

Rogue Antivirus Scams Making Moola

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center said rogue antivirus writers have raked in $150 million from users. Read the full article. Computerworld...

World Cup Email Scams on the Rise

Cybercrooks have begun punting World Cup ticket and HD TV viewing scams as a successor to earlier lottery-based cons. Read the full article. The Register...

Nigeria Moving to Shut Down Scammers

It turns out Nigeria is taking measures to fight Internet scams—law enforcement there has shut down close to a thousand websites and made 18 arrests as part of a new initiative to save the nation’s reputation and crack down on Internet scammers. The program, called “Project Eagle Claw,” has only...

SMBs, Non-Profits New Targets of Choice for Attackers

Large enterprises and consumers have been dealing with sophisticated phishing scams, online extortion plots and other assorted theft schemes for years, but now attackers are turning their attention to the huge population of small businesses and non-profits in the U.S. And they are finding a gold...

Beware of Swine Flu phishing, e-mail scams

Security researchers are starting to sound the alarm avertlabs.com for e-mail scams related to news stories on the Swine Flu. According to a notice from US-CERT, the attacks arrive via an unsolicited email message typically containing a subject line related to the Swine Flu. These email messages...

Spam, phishing and online scams: A network view

In this Google Tech Talk, Nick Feamster, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, dives into the murky world of phishing and online scams as they relate to the epidemic of spam...

Cybergangs use cheap labor to break codes on social sites

From USA Today Byron Acohido It’s become the new front in cybercrime: scams and identity-theft programs that attack e-mail accounts and users of social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. To carry out many of these automated attacks, cybercriminals first must overcome “captchas,” the...

Job hunters must guard against identity theft

From Orlando Sentinel Richard Burnett With unemployment soaring, identity thieves are increasingly preying on unsuspecting job seekers by stealing personal information and trying to cash in on it. The scams run the gamut from fake help-wanted ads and job-search services to bogus resume-posting We...

Online crime complaints hit record high in 2008

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 says complaints of online crime hit a record high in 2008, driven mostly by non-delivery of goods and service and those pesky 419 Nigerian e-mail scams. Accordign to a new report PDF from ic3.gov, the center received a a total of 275,284 complaints, a...

Beware these Facebook scams

Facebook and other social networks can be downright unfriendly when it comes to scam attempts. PC World‘s JR Raphael has put together five attack scenarios and information on how to protect yourself and your Facebook friends...

Update Protection against Multiple SAP Business Connector Vulnerabilities

SAP Business Connector SAP BC is B2B application that enables communication between SAP applications like SAP R/3 and non-SAP applications. Several vulnerabilities have been reported in the SAP BC that can allow for Phishing scams against the SAP BC administrator, disclosure of sensitive...

Newcomers have to learn the website's invasion of basic knowledge-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

First introduced under what kind of sites can be invaded: you must be a dynamic website, such as asp, php, jsp this form of the site. Suffix for. htm site advise everyone not to invasion! invasion probability is almost 0 Invasion Description: 1 upload vulnerabilities; 2 storm library; 3 inject; 4...

[Full-disclosure] New (19.10.05) MS-IE Url Spoofing bug (by K-Gen).

New 19.10.05 MS-IE Url Spoofing bug by K-Gen. Gr337s .. I K-Gen have found a new I think.. URL spoofing bug in IE. Affected : All MS-IE Browsers Win XP SP2 as well. This allows a malicious website to host a specially crafted A HREF tag that shows to the user as a link to one location, but actuall...