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News Archive - July 2008
Storm worm stirs up Iran and US conflict
31, July 2008
The Storm worm, the world's most prolific piece of mailicious software, has once agin re-invented itself. This time the nasty piece of software is conning people into opening emails...
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Spammers: why do they bother?
30, July 2008
I often hear people say: I don't know why those spammers bother sending that junk mail, nobody even reads the stuff!
Well, that's true to an extent. But, think of...
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We're losing the spam war
29, July 2008
Despite the concerted efforts of anti-spammers around the world, more and more of the junk email is being produced.
Because most modern spam is produced by robots, also known as botnets,...
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Trend towards website based security threats
28, July 2008
Over recent years the security threats to PCs have migrated from diskette and email attacks to threats that come solely from websites. Such attacks occur when the user of...
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Shred, shred and shred it again
27, July 2008
It seems that large American companies aren't shredding confidential data to a level that's deemed acceptable.
A recent study by Iron Mountain security has profiled companies with revenues of more than...
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The internet is under hacking attack!
26, July 2008
The entire system involving how internet addresses are organised has come udner threat of hacking, it has been reported.
Fortunately for the good citizens of the internet the problem has been...
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MSN phishing scam reels in the targets
25, July 2008
If you're a user of MSN you might have noticed a very dodgy new phishing scam growing in popularity on the instant messenger device.
Messages sometimes appear randomly with...
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The UK's most spammed man
24, July 2008
Have you ever heard of Colin Wells? I'm not surprised if you haven't. But you should feel sorry for him. He gets a lot of spam and...
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Apple's Safari Browser needs a security upgrade
23, July 2008
For many years the world has watched as hackers and virus writers have concocted recipes to attack Windows based PCs. Time and again thousands of computers were infected with...
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Update your internet browser today
22, July 2008
It seems pretty obvious, but internet users are encouraged to update their web browsers to the latest available versions. Why? Older browsers can have major security flaws and...
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Google blocks fake PayPal and eBay emails
21, July 2008
Google has stepped up its fight against emails that lead readers to fake (and potentially dangerous) eBay and PayPal sites that are set up specifically to steal personal information.
A...
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Internet scammers pretend to be FBI and IRS
20, July 2008
A new internet scam has emerged, and it seems the culprits are assuming the identities of FBI and IRS agents. The scam was recently identified in Kansas and there...
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Suspected terrorists become spyware targets in Bav
19, July 2008
In a bid to catch terrorists, the police in Bavaria has turned to spyware. The German state has become the first to allow police to use spyware in their...
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Crack an algorithm code, win $1million!
18, July 2008
Where are we? Back in the dotcom boom? I don't understand why someone would do offer it, but they have. Win $1million simply by cracking an algorithm code.
In...
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Banks responsible for scams
17, July 2008
A court in Germany has ruled that banks are responsible for the losses incurred by customers through phishing scams. If confidential data is intercepted during a banking transaction and...
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Schwab and E-trade hit by online theft
16, July 2008
Most internet users think they'll never be a victim of online crime. If you're one of them, think again. The rate of online crime is increasing, and the...
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FTC wants civil penalties for spyware
15, July 2008
Currently in the USA spyware convictions are limited to criminal charges whereby restitution can be sought only for profits made from...
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Wimbledon excitement fuels phishing attacks
14, July 2008
The recent Wimbledon tennis championships seem to have been the latest cover for hackers looking to penetrate the PCs of unsuspecting internet surfers.
Recently two high-profile tennis websites were hijacked by...
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Dutch government prevents security paper release
13, July 2008
I little while ago I blogged about how Lonon's Oyster card and Hong Kong's Octopus card might be subject to hacking after research at a Dutch university. It has...
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Storm worm responsible for upsurge in spam
12, July 2008
Noticed that there's more spam than usual trying to infiltrate your inbox? If not, then you're one of the lucky ones. The Storm worm, which basically infects computers and...
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Fraud costs Australians almost a billion dollars i
11, July 2008
A report released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed that nearly a billion dollars was lost to fraud last year. The fraud included credit card and bank...
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Internet Explorer 8, with security features?
10, July 2008
August 2008 should see the release of Microsoft's new Internet Explorer version 8. It's touted as the browser with security enhancements to try to stop the growing threat of...
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So much choice, so little protection
09, July 2008
Just like in the "old days" of the internet, web surfers have a great selection of internet browsers to choose from. Gone is Netscape Navigator as a serious contender...
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Browsers are an internet security risk
08, July 2008
The best estimates put the number of internet users in the world at 1.4 BILLION. That's a lot of people. A quarter of the world's population in fact. ...
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Spam gets personal, and nasty
07, July 2008
Because spam (junk email) isn't annoying enough, recent spam messages have taken to launching personal attacks on the email recipient. Accusing the reader of having a 'stupid face' is...
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Information security becomes a hot topic
06, July 2008
The UK Department of Trade and Industry has stated that there are 4.5 million businesses in the UK and all but less than one percent of them employee less than...
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Ameritrade close to settling hacking case
05, July 2008
Online stockbroking company, Ameritrade, recently had its database hacked into, potentially leaving open to hackers the personal information of more than 6 million of its customers.
Ameritrade has declared...
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Insurance for personal identity theft
04, July 2008
The theft of personal information is big business. In fact, some reports say ID theft is now a major mafia revenue generator, with a lot...
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The new Firefox browser continues to impress
03, July 2008
If you're a Windows user you would be used to getting the same old incremental updates to your operating system. They fix a bug here, patch a vulnerability there....
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Kentucky Governor becomes victim of identity theft
02, July 2008
Jack Conway, The Attorney General of the American state of Kentucky was recently the victim of identity theft. Ironically the Attorney General had just started a “cyber crimes” unit...
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Yahoo Mail acts on security vulnerability
01, July 2008
Yahoo! Mail reportedly had a vulnerability that would have allowed a smart hacker to steal a victim’s Yahoo! Account information and gain access to more of their personal info....
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