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Send a mail that sounds like a security warning or an authoritative word of caution, and you have a better chance of potential victims opening it and downloading the attachment. Or that’s what the author of the new worm ‘Worm.Warezov.at’, thinks!
According to Security analysts at MicroWorld Technologies, Warezov.at or Stration, is a mass mailing […]
“Digital dirt”: It’s a relatively new term used to describe the unprofessional, often risky and even potentially scandalous information and images that people post about themselves online, from pictures of intoxication-induced escapades to blog rants about anything from professors to politics. Central Michigan University Director of Career Services Julia Barlow Sherlock is available to comment […]
The latest Internet Security Threat Report by Symantec shows that home users are being increasingly targeted by attackers for identity theft, fraud, and other financially-motivated crimes.
These users are less likely to have established security measures in place and account for 86 percent of all targeted attacks. Attackers are using a variety of techniques to […]
Researchers at Exploit Prevention Labs (http://www.explabs.com) have discovered
a massive online scam in which a cyber criminal ring in Australia was sending
out Yahoo Greetings email notifications to hundreds of thousands of consumers.
Victims were infected with keyloggers that stole passwords, usernames and credit
card numbers.
Lab experts believe this is the first known example of cybercriminals using Yahoo Greetings […]
A new program called UGuide TV programming via an easy to view TV grid and delivers the ability to remotely program Microsoft Windows XP Media Center to record shows.
From a java-enabled mobile phone, UGuide’s users are able to search over 20,000 TV program listings, including regional programs and the new Fall line-up from all US […]
SimulScribe (www.simulscribe.com) makes dialing in and listening to voicemail from mobile devices obsolete.
The service uses an advanced voice recognition technology to convert voicemail into text, which then gets delivered in near real time to Blackberries and Treos as email or as text messages to non-email equipped cell phones. A .wav file […]