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American Airlines warns of scam emails

09

Jan

2012

American Airlines has posted online several examples of scam emails, claiming to be from the airline in an effort to help protect their customers from falling victim to the scam.The phishing attack which has been active as recently as November 2011 was designed to con American Airlines customers into surrendering their personal information and passwords.One […]

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Nitro malware attack targets industrial companies, relies on social engineering

01

Nov

2011

Symantec published a paper today titled “The Nitro Attacks: Stealing Secrets from the Chemical Industry.” The paper details research they did into a recent series of targeted attacks on industrial companies. This “nitro” attack has an interesting blend of malware techniques that does show some ingenuity. It used a socially engineered email message with a […]

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Is Your Dropbox Software Up to Date?

18

Aug

2011

Many people use Dropbox to share and synchronize files, but few people know when updates to the program are available. The application itself has no updater, and no notification when new versions are released. So, in order to find out if you need a new version, you need to check in the program’s Account preferences […]

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