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Hotel credit card wrong transaction email malware attack

Sep

2011

Be on your guard! Emails claiming to be from a hotel about a wrong transaction on your credit card are being spammed worldwide – with the intention of infecting your computer with a malware. Here’s a typical example. In this case it claims to come from the booking department of the Hotel Swissotel in Chicago: […]

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Gordon Ramsay claims spyware used to hack into his email

Aug

2011

Gordon Ramsay, the craggy-faced continually cussing celebrity chef, is suing members of his wife’s family following claims that they used spyware to hack into his personal and company emails. Chris Hutcheson, the father of Ramsay’s wife Tana, was sacked as managing director of the dirty-mouthed dough puncher’s restaurant empire last October, amid a blizzard of […]

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New Trojan found – this time, interesting, important and harmless!

Jul

2011

The word Trojan has many meanings, and when it is used without qualification in headlines, it’s hard to know which one is meant. An olden-day Trojan was an inhabitant of the ancient city of Troy, near modern Canakkale in Turkey, on the Anatolian side of the Dardanelles. The word is also short for Trojan horse. […]

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