news report | DataProtectionCenter.com

Fake CNN and BBC spam news messages

25

Mar

2013

Fake CNN and BBC spam messages use current events like “New Pope sued over sex abuse” to lure users to exploit sites. AVG Web Threats researchers have found spam from scammers using the Blackhole exploit kit that use the issue of sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church as bait. The spam, which impersonates CNN.com […]

Category General Written by AVG Blogs 0 Comments

Sky News admits it hacked Canoe Man’s email

05

Apr

2012

Broadcaster Sky News has admitted that it authorised a journalist to hack email accounts on two separate occasions.According to media reports, the TV stations’s northern England correspondent, Gerard Tubb, accessed an email account belonging to John Darwin – the so-called “Canoe Man” who faked his own death as part of a complex fraud involving his […]

Category General Written by Naked Security - Sophos 0 Comments

Elections 2012 and DDoS attacks in Russia

07

Mar

2012

As Eugene Kaspersky had written earlier, we were expecting new DDoS attacks on resources covering the Russian presidential election. So, as the country went to the polls on 4 March, we were on the lookout for new DDoS attacks. We were surprised to hear a news report from one mass media source that claimed a […]

Category General Written by Securelist / Blog 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘news report’

Fake CNN and BBC spam news messages

Sky News admits it hacked Canoe Man’s email

Elections 2012 and DDoS attacks in Russia

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us