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Smart Phones Are Phishers’ Phony Gift

10

Aug

2012

Lucky draw prizes are commonly used as bait in phishing schemes. The fake lottery prizes observed last Christmas and the charity lottery are examples. In July 2012, phishers offered a smart phone as a lucky draw prize. The phishing site spoofed a telecommunications company based in France and was hosted on servers based in Fulshear, […]

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Phishers Dislike Facebook Timeline

09

Mar

2012

Co-Author: Ayub Khan Phishers regularly introduce new types of fake applications with the motive of improving their chance to harvest user credentials. In February 2012, Symantec observed a phishing site recommending a fake application that allegedly removes “Timeline” profile for Facebook users. The phishing site was hosted on a free web hosting site. The phishing […]

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Hackers fail to extort $50,000 from Symantec, as pcAnywhere source code is published

08

Feb

2012

Symantec has confirmed that a file made available on the internet for anyone to download, does contain the source code for an old version of its pcAnywhere product. For a short while last month, before releasing a patch, Symantec advised customers to disable their pcAnywhere installations because of concern that hackers could exploit vulnerabilities. In […]

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