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From SECNAP Alerts:
PayPal users have been targeted again with phishing emails supposedly sent by the online payment company, Help Net Security reported on November 25.
 
With “You have changed your PayPal email address” in the subject line, the sender attempts to convince the recipient that someone has accessed their account and changed the email address. Recipients [...]

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A new scam has been making the rounds recently – scammers calling through the phone and posing as people from Microsoft, scaring victims into paying for bogus services and stealing their credit information. These fraudsters can be very persistent – so it’s important to always be alert and informed.
You have to give it to scammers for [...]

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The premise of a new Facebook app called “If I Die” is sweet if a little morbid: You record a video message that will be played for your loved ones after your death. As the app advertisement says: “Death can catch you anywhere, anytime. Leave your If I Die message before it’s too late.”
There’s just [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
Homeland Security officials are warning the public to beware of email scams and possible cyberattacks related to the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
 
New bulletins issued in recent days by the Homeland Security Department’s cybersecurity center said computer users should be wary of emails with subject lines referring to 9/11, even [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
A ‘phony antivirus’ scam is presenting itself as a near-perfect Microsoft Update popup with one notable exception—it appears only on machines using Firefox browsers.
According to the Naked Security blog, machines infected in drive-by downloads from compromised sites receive the scareware, which appears as an urgent Microsoft Update notification.
The clue that the updates are [...]

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Facebook phishing scams that trick users into clicking malicious links in the status posts of victimized friends have been making headlines lately. The newest Facebook phishing scam, however, doesn’t even require the victim to be logged into Facebook; instead, fake emails claiming to be from Facebook are tricking users into giving up their personal information.
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One of the safest ways to protect yourself from phishing and other email scams is to avoid clicking on unknown or unfamiliar links, or opening messages from an unknown sender. However, a glance at the sender may not be a sure bet of security. A current email scam making the rounds looks like it’s from [...]

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The phishing scams being warned of as a result of the Epsilon data breach aren’t the only malicious emails making the rounds right now. A spam email with the subject “Request rejected” is currently infecting computers around the world.
The message does not contain any clue as to what the rejected request might be, and since [...]

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McAfee posted on its blog recently news about e-mail purportedly coming from Facebook urging recipients to open an attachment to get their new password on the site. Unfortunately the email is a scam to get not only users’ password of the popular social networking website, but potentially any accounts they use while using their computer [...]

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