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As the worldwide use of Facebook continues to grow, more and more scams are appearing on the popular social networking website. Using promos, “interesting” links and all other sorts of strategies to trap you, a grain of salt is always needed when dealing with things outside of what Facebook offers.
As more and more people continue [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
UPDATED Tuesday Dec. 20 8:45 a.m. ET:  The first instances of Kim Jong Il malware have been confirmed, as spam emails purporting to be about Kim’s death have begun to appear, according to Trend Micro. The subject lines may vary, but the emails have PDFs or Word documents attached, which of course hide malicious [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
As Hurricane Irene barreled toward the eastern seaboard, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned government agencies and private companies to be on the lookout for storm-related phishing attacks and other malicious cyberactivity. The agency said that cybercriminals go into overdrive during highly publicized physical events such as hurricanes and earthquakes.
“Both government agencies [...]

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Last night’s news of Osama bin Laden’s death has taken the world by storm. However, scammers are taking advantage of this event with a wave of malware attacks.
Within hours of the announcement of his death, Osama bin Laden “death photos” were circulating around the web. These photos and links are unverified and likely fake, and [...]

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Malicious cyber thieves might be scaring you into buying and downloading software that may harm your computer.
Security firm McAfee has published a report early in the year showing that up to a million people worldwide fall victim to so-called “scareware” each year. Scareware, or rogueware, is software that poses as legitimate security software but in [...]

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Online oracle Wikipedia defines phishing as: “the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.” We probably don’t need to tell you what kind of damage unscrupulous people can do with that kind of data in [...]

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New research from risk consultancy firm highlights risk from data theft committed by employees.
A poll of over 800 senior executives around the world showed that companies for the first time are losing more from the theft of their electronic assets than from physical assets. This was recently revealed by Kroll, a risk consulting firm.
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Beware! Someone maybe stealing money from you where you least expect it – your bank!
According to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, online criminals have been getting away with what they estimate to be over $100 million in bank fraud – mostly at the expense of small to midsized businesses. Typically, hackers plant malicious programs [...]

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Scammers are getting sneakier these days, using increasingly underhanded tactics to bait unsuspecting victims. One new scam involves asking for a “registration fee” for getting better visibility on search engine search results.
As more and more people are becoming increasingly conscious about online scams, it’s expected that scammers and fraudsters need to step up their game [...]

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Millions of us stay connected with friends, family and business contacts on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn and other social networking sites.
Some of the information posted on your personal site may seem harmless for the social networker, but could be a score for identity thieves.  Cybercriminals scan social networking pages to gather personal information for their [...]

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