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American Red Cross spam links to Paypal.com

29

Jun

2012

by Dave Michmerhuizen & Luis Chapetti – Security Researchers Spammers often take advantage of a wide variety of recognizable brands; Microsoft, UPS, banks, even the FBI. Whenever a large natural disaster strikes, such as the recent Colorado wildfires, spammers diversify and send donation emails using the brands of well known charities. A good example of […]

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WARNING: Incoming Hurricane Irene Scams Ahead!

30

Aug

2011

As much as we dread hearing about disasters-the natural ones, most especially-happening on certain parts of the globe where most of our families and friends are, we still keep an eye out for what’s happening. And as much as we dread remembering that there are people out there who actually bank on news about such […]

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Calling Android Smartphone Zombies

02

Jun

2011

Android Smartphones are under attack again by rogue applications that once installed are reading information from the phone and sending it back to a pre-assigned location. According to mobile security firm Lookout, as many as 120,000 users may have been infected from a cafeteria selection of at least two dozen applications from the Android Market. […]

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