Posts Tagged ‘email’
Online travel most vulnerable to email attacks
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Agari released its first TrustIndex, a quarterly measurement that applies Agari’s big data insights to score email attack vulnerability and email trust by industry.
Similar to a credit score, the T...
Fake "Account blocked!" email targets Hotmail users
Monday, May 14th, 2012
Hotmail users are once again targeted by phishers. With "E-mail account alert!" in the Subject line, the fake email ostensibly comes from Microsoft.
"This e-mail has been sent to you by Hotmail to ...
Week in review: Massive carding ring bust, cyber attacks against US gas companies, and the creation and evolution of the superuser
Monday, May 14th, 2012
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles:
Phishers mimic OpenID to steal credentials
New spam email campaigns are taking advantage of the users' vag...
Thousands of Twitter passwords allegedly exposed
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Initial claims of 55,000 Twitter account names and passwords being leaked have not stood up to scrutiny as the list includes many duplicates, email addresses and other extraneous data
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Phishing impersonating email service providers spikes
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Phishing attacks impersonating email service providers increased 333 percent from Q4 2011 to Q1 2012. IID attributes this spike to spammers needing unsullied email addresses since many major spamming ...
Comprehensive email threat protection from GFI Software
Friday, May 4th, 2012
In order to help SMBs in the fight against email-borne threats, GFI Software today announced the availability of GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection.
The solution features anti-spam functiona...
"Free additional storage" emails doing rounds
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Symantec researchers warn about a variety of fake emails supposedly coming from popular email and online storage services, offering "storage quota upgrades".
A click on the offered link takes the p...
"Free additional storage" phishing emails doing rounds
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Symantec researchers warn about a variety of fake emails supposedly coming from popular email and online storage services, offering "storage quota upgrades".
A click on the offered link takes the p...
Phishing email targets Santander clients
Monday, April 30th, 2012
Customers of Santander, one of the largest banking groups in the world, are currently being targeted with a phishing email masquerading as a bogus notification of a scheduled software upgrade:
Subj...
