Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for work-at-home scams. Security researchers from Symantec have detected a new email spam ...
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Customers of British internet service provider (ISP) UK2 have been unable to receive emails from any Yahoo/BT Internet accounts for the past week, due to the two firms blocking their IP addresses. Computer Weekly has seen an email from ...
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Security researchers have collaborated to take down Grum, the world's third-largest botnet of hijacked computers. The Grum botnet is believed to have been responsible for around 18% of global spam, or 18 billion spam messages a day. ...
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IDG News Service - Cybercriminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels potentially malicious traffic through them, according to security researchers from Symantec. ...
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IDG News Service - One of the world's most active spam botnets -- Grum -- was crippled after two of its command and control (CnC) servers hosted in the Netherlands were taken down, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation criticized new cybercrime legislation that went into effect Wednesday in the Philippines, which has sparked protests over its heavy-handed approach to speech on the internet. ...
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IDG News Service - Google on Thursday dismissed the possibility that a new wave of pharmacy, penny stock and e-card spam emails are being sent by Android spam botnets. "Our analysis suggests that spammers are using infected computers and ...
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There has been an unprecedented volume of malicious code and attacks - including many high profile incidents - in the Middle East during 2012. Attacks ranged from those performed by cyber criminals to hacktivists and in some cases ...
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Medical devices often use commercial PCs and have wireless connections that make them vulnerable to malware, or require software updates for security, but the U.S. may not be doing an adequate job tracking these risks, researchers ...
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Threat data Future of hardware-assisted security Why Intel bought McAfee Defence in isolation and containment Social media, cloud, big data and mobile apps Video: McAfee co-president Michael DeCesare on consumerisation and security The ...
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Two U.S. agencies have seized 686 websites accused of selling counterfeit and illegal medicines as part of an international crackdown on online sales of fake drugs. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security ...
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Security researchers from Symantec have identified an information-stealing Trojan program that was used to infect computer servers belonging to various U.S. financial institutions. Dubbed Stabuniq, the Trojan program was found on mail ...
Instagram is preparing to start selling its users' own photos, according to its updated privacy policy published this week. The new policy for the photo-sharing service suggests that members' photos may be sold to advertisers in paid ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigated the men following complaints from consumers, and has put an additional eight companies on notice that they face action, including fines if it is proved they are sending out unwanted ...
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IDG News Service - An Internet safety education campaign will point out scams and other online dangers with an initial target audience of children and seniors. The new Digital Citizens campaign, launched Thursday, will also strive to shed ...
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