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Fake SMS Scams On Rise

09

Aug

2011

Fake SMS Scams are on rise in last few months. Fraudsters are mass spamming mobile users with fake messages claiming that they have won some Lottery or Lucky Draw from UK. Below are some of the scam messages: BT.UK: YOUR GSM NO.HAS WON 500,000GBP IN BTELECOM INT’L MOBILE DRAW TO CLAIM, SEND MOBILE NO,NAME AND […]

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Hotmail Adds Some Extra Security Features

15

Jul

2011

Yesterday Microsoft‘s Dick Craddock posted a blog describing a new feature that was recently added to Hotmail. This feature allows users to easily report when they think a friend’s email account has been hacked. Overall this is quite a clever idea, and a good move from Microsoft towards better securing their Hotmail service. This announcement […]

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Spammers and compromised accounts

14

Jul

2011

Our friends at Commtouch have blogged about something that is no surprise – spammers using compromised accounts vs. bots (their latest threat report is quite good and worth reading btw). While compromised email accounts (hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc.) are not new, there is a little more to it: There was a massive takedown of a […]

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