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Phishers Kick Off 2014 FIFA World Cup

14

Sep

2012

Co-author: Ashish DiwakarThe next FIFA World Cup is scheduled to take place in June 2014 in Brazil and phishers have already taken the opportunity to promote the event. World Cups are a favorite of phishers, as observed in the phishing sites focused on the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the 2011 Cricket World Cup. In […]

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Outlook webmail passwords restricted to 16 chars – how does that compare with Yahoo and Gmail?

02

Aug

2012

Outlook.com, Microsoft’s relaunch for Hotmail, has already had over one million new sign-ups from users keen to try it out.Jokers were also quick to grab available email addresses, beating Microsoft’s CEO to the punch by grabbing steveballmer@outlook.com and donotreply@outlook.com, for instance.Although these addresses were no doubt acquired for fun, there can be little doubt that […]

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LastFM investigating passwords hack

08

Jun

2012

Yesterday, LinkedIn started investigating a password leak, followed by online dating site eHarmony, and now online music streaming site LastFM has announced on their blog that they too are investigating the leak of user passwords. As a precautionary measure, they are advising all their users to change their passwords immediately. You can do that here. […]

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