SPAM-NEWS
New Digital Spam: How Bad Guys Try to Trick You; How to Avoid the Traps
6 Feb 2012 at 5:03amThe latest forms of digital spam include clickjacking, junk apps, bad QR codes, and much more. Here's what you can do to stay safe.
Spam in SMS is back with a vengeance
5 Feb 2012 at 12:01pmTelemarketers have found ways to evade TRAI's rules and tariffs on promotional SMS
"Spam" meat tied to diabetes risk in Native Americans: study
31 Jan 2012 at 3:09am(Reuters) - Native Americans who often ate processed meat in a can, generically known as "spam" and a common food on reservations, one subsidized by the government -- had a two-fold increased risk of developing diabetes over those who ate little or none, according to a U.S. study. Native American...
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PDF spam – a step ahead of image spam(GFI white paper)PHISHING-NEWS
Google, Microsoft, Bank of America, Facebook, PayPal, LinkedIn and Yahoo! uni...
6 Feb 2012 at 1:44pmHUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Chances are you or someone you know has been victimized by email phishing. If it's any reassurance, it's not a small club to belong to. In fact, millions of people and companies are defrauded every year by spam and phishing.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing
30 Jan 2012 at 4:09pmCan industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL -- along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world's Bank of America and Fidelity Investments -- succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort call...
Google, Microsoft, Facebook Teaming Up to Fight Phishing
4 Feb 2012 at 4:13pmGoogle, Microsoft and Facebook are teaming up with banks and security vendors to create The Domain-based Authentication, Reporting and Conformance group (DMARC) group, which seeks to develop a platform that can weed out potential phishing messages.
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VIRUS-NEWS
Computer virus invades Japan?s space agency, takes data
22 Jan 2012 at 1:32amJapan?s space agency may have lost potentially sensitive data to a computer virus that infected one of the agency?s terminals earlier this month, Japanese officials have said.
Computer Virus Swipes Data from Japan's Space Agency
13 Jan 2012 at 7:38pmA computer virus infected a data terminal at Japan's space agency, causing a leak of potentially sensitive information, officials announced today (Jan. 13).
Koobface computer virus gang unmasked
17 Jan 2012 at 8:33pmOnline security researchers claimed Tuesday to have identified the members of a Russian gang of cyber criminals behind the Koobface computer virus which has attacked Facebook and other sites.
