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Amusing Craigslist phishing

17

Aug

2011

The best way to double check that the page you are visiting is a legitimate page and not a phishing site, is to verify the domain name in the address bar (obviously, this does not work in case of DNS hijacking). Phishers have used a variety of techniques to make the URL look legitimate, like […]

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Blackhat spam SEO leading directly to a virus download

08

Jun

2011

Attackers usually use some form of social engineering technique to fool users into downloading and executing a malicious executable – they scare users with a fake antivirus page, they present users with a video that requires a new software or codec update, they claim the user’s browser or Flash version is out of date, etc. […]

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Facebook Police are Phishing for You

01

Jun

2011

Last week I found an interesting Facebook phishing site, and grabbed a screenshot to do a quick user education post about it. Here is what the "facebookpolice" site looked like: Notice that when I typed in my (fake) password, it wasn’t auto-converted into "**********" like a real password box would do. This is a dead […]

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