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Spam attack hits Facebook’s own Help Center

26

Nov

2011

The community forum on Facebook’s Help Center has become overrun by spammers, making the self-help support community effectively useless. The spam messages, which at the time of writing are claiming to offer ways to watch live streaming video of American football games, appear to have been posted by bogus or compromised Facebook accounts. Clicking on […]

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Beware of Your Holiday Travel E-Ticket Confirmation

22

Nov

2011

How does Symantec know it's the week of Thanksgiving? Because as the busiest travel day of the year day quickly approaches, the day just before Thanksgiving , there is a surge in fake email ticket confirmations that lead to viruses. Here is what a fake airline message looks like: If you inspect the HTML coding […]

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Half of all spam is relayed via Asian computers

01

Nov

2011

Do you take enough care over your personal computer? Have you kept it up-to-date with the latest anti-virus software and security patches? Those are the kinds of questions you have to ask yourself if you want to avoid contributing to the “Dirty Dozen”, Sophos’s regular research into the countries which are relaying the most spam […]

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