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Text-to-phone phishing attacks show enormous drop in the first quarter

June 18, 2010 - 8:50am | Fraud | News
Text-to-phone phishing attacks show enormous drop in the first quarter

 

According to the latest report from Internet Identity security company (IID), text-to-phone phishing attacks decreased considerably in the first quarter of the current year. Thus, these attacks have dropped by 62% from the previous quarter.

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attack | credit union | Internet Identity | IVR system | research | text-to-phone phishing
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How critical is vulnerability in Firefox 3.5.1?

July 20, 2009 - 12:58am | News | Other themes
How critical is vulnerability in Firefox 3.5.1?

In response to the reports on the vulnerability recently discovered in the latest version of Firefox on Sunday Mozilla made a statement saying that the bug is not exploitable. As is known last Thursday the company released a new version of its browser Firefox 3.5.1 which fixed a number of security holes in version 3.5 launched in June.
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attack | denial of service | Firefox 3.5.1 | Mozilla | security bug | vulnerability | web browser
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Verizon to sue organizers of cable attack that cut off 100,000 users

April 20, 2009 - 2:15am | Law aspects | News
Verizon to sue organizers of cable attack that cut off 100,000 users

American largest mobile telecommunications company Verizon has reportedly filed a lawsuit against vermin who destroyed a fiber-optic cable having cut this way the whole Silicon Valley from the communications, according to the Register. The investigation launched by the U.S. authorities is to determine and arrest the attackers yet.
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AT&T | attack | cell phone | fiber-optic cable | Verizon | wireless communication
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New malware that infects devices not built on Windows

March 17, 2009 - 5:39am | Fraud | News
New malware that infects devices not built on Windows

According to The Register, Internet security experts are alarming about the new rush of malicious software attacks that can come over the security settings of a wide variety of devices on a local area network, even when they are hardened or don't run on Windows operating systems.
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attack | defective DHCP | DNS server | malware | protection | Trojan
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CheckFree lost control of its domains due to attack from Eastern Europe

December 3, 2008 - 9:56am | News | Payment systems
CheckFree lost control of its domains due to attack from Eastern Europe

Online payment service CheckFree has lost control of at least two of its domains on Tuesday in an attack that sent customers to servers run by a notorious crime gang believed to be based in Eastern Europe.

One of the readers of the magazine Richard D. reported receiving a bogus secure sockets layer certificate when attempting to log in to his Mycheckfree.com account early Tuesday morning.
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attack | CheckFree | crime gang | DNS | domain | online payment system
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