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November 2006
SPAMfighter News 2006/11/30
Hacker Directed Bank Customers To Bogus Website
Community America Credit Union reported to Kentuckiana Minority Business Council (KMBC) that a cyber-attacker managed to divert people from the firm's site
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/30
Vulnerabilities in Web Applications Invite Hackers’ Activities
According to 'Watchfire', a web application security firm based in Massachusetts, the weakest area capable of exploitation in 'enterprise information
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/30
FTC Clamps Down on Software Distributors
The U.S. 'Federal Trade Commission' (FTC), which has taken up the job of protecting consumers has been successful several times in fighting companies that
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/30
DOD Reports Threat of Foreign Software
A U.S. 'Department of Defense' task force will be alerting the Pentagon of an approaching threat to national security. There is going to be a security
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/30
Antivirus Firms Have Potential To Produce Single Signatures
As malware becomes increasingly sophisticated, the damage it does has also become more and more specific. Therefore, ...
SPAMfighter News 2006/11/29
EU Stepping Up Its Move To Combat Spyware And Spam
The Commission noted in a recent communication that despite current EU laws to bar spam mails in Europe, European countries continues to experience
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/29
Another Phishing Scam Using PayPal Service
SPAMfighter News 2006/11/29
Hackers Write ‘Proof-Of-Concept’ Adware for Mac OS X
Savvy Windows users have learnt to defeat adware and other nasty codes that download from the Internet and intrude on user activity, pinch data, or clog
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/29
Inbar Put Under Investigation For Spam Scam
The world's most prolific spammers are using a British Internet company to
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/29
Spam Displaying Explicit Images Downloads Trojan
Security firm Sophos has issued a nation-wide alert of a new spam that offers 'free' explicit images and videos. The true purpose of the spam is to make
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/28
BBA Outlines Steps To Ward Off Online Fraud
The 'British Bankers' Association' (BBA) has cautioned the consumers who use debit and credit cards for online transactions many a times to help take care
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/28
A Merry Christmas For Cyber-Criminals
Innumerable number of people are waiting for their gifts as the festive season is approaching near. Online shoppers are getting ready to spend extensive
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/28
The Oprah Ticket Scam
Scammers trying to extract money from victims have been dispatching unsolicited e-mails inviting them to taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show", said
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/28
Microsoft Proves To Be More Secure Than Oracle
Microsoft beats Oracle in the security of its database, says a recent report. Database security specialist David Litchfield of 'NGS Software' arrives at a
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/28
Website Poses To Be Charitable Benefactors For Children
A warning by a security company says that a website that pretends to aid underprivileged children is actually spreading scam to swindle users into throwing
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/27
Festive E-Greetings Turn Out Malicious Messages
Holiday shoppers this season are going to encounter a variety of online threats that are likely to explode in December 2006, say security trackers. As the
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/27
‘Evil Twin’ Works As Hacker’s WiFi
Hackers using false wireless access points to illegally grab personal information are now targeting locations busy with high 'net' worth people. Millions of
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/27
Microsoft Hunt Down Phishing Criminals
Microsoft, together with law enforcers, is tracking down cyber-criminals who attempt to pilfer bank account information via Internet. They have raised 129
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/27
Apple Mac OS X Suffers Vulnerability
Researchers have designed exploit code that attacks unpatched 'kernel' vulnerabilityin Apple's OS X desktop program. A vulnerability analyst working
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/27
Firefox And IE Confront A New Flaw
Mozilla's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 are susceptible to a flaw that could enable attackers to steal confidential information.
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SPAMfighter News 2006/11/27
‘Santa Spam’ Can Spoil This Season’s Fun
There is a warning for parents to be wary about spam mails that lure their children with a letter from Santa. As annual shopping frenzy for Christmas is
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/25
Chinese Malware Stealing Passwords
The malware is designed (and written in simplified form of Chinese) to aid cyber-criminals to
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/25
Hacking Attacks Are Increasing to Haunt Banks
Banks are trying hard to make arduous defenses against cyber-criminals but they are encountering a bigger threat - physical theft of patron information by
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/25
McAfee’s Site Advisor Misclassified As Anti-Phishing Product
McAfee has been compelled to withdraw its claims that a test by anti-phishing toolbars misrepresented one of its products. According to McAfee, it was
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/25
Study Indicates Incapacity of Anti-Phishing Tools
When researchers at 'Carnegie Mellon University' were studying anti-phishing toolbars, they could not find a single capable product. The study involved a
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/25
Hackers Running Dry of New Ideas
A study by Russian anti-virus firm, 'Kaspersky Lab' says that virus writers are running out of new
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/24
Virtual Machines Can Prevent Malware Execution
Hackers are applying 'virtual machine detection' to the worms and trojans they drop on computers to
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/24
Spam Scams Make A Comeback
Bunches of different types of e-mail spam scams are coming and going. Currently, the "You Have Won The Lottery" is back in the cycle. Different
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/24
New Patient Database: Cause of GPs Fear
A new poll reports that three out of every five GPs have fears that cyber-criminals and non-health employees would be able to access the patient's records
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/24
Guidelines For Safe Online Shopping This Season
Ron Teixeira, executive director of the NCSA said that they, in partnership with the NCL this year, would like to remind consumers to adopt simple security
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/24
China UnionPay Website Becomes Victim of Hack
A hacking attack dropped a backdoor Trojan on the China UnionPay website, reports news sources in China. The site runs a 'cross-bank credit card service'
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/24
‘Source Media’ Files Hacking Accusation on Hoffacker
A former executive of 'Source Media Inc.' was held for hacking into the company's computer system after three years of his dismissal, prosecutors said on
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/23
A Newer Rootkit in PCI Cards
John Heasman, security researcher, released a paper recently describing how to hide a malicious code embedded on graphics and network cards so as to avoid
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/23
Adobe Flash Player Upgrades To Fix A Bug
Flash manufacturer Adobe (formally Macromedia) has fixed a virus by using a silent update to version 9.0.28.0. The bug is useful for an attacker using
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/23
Another Case of Hacking City Website
A Turkish hacker on November 18, 2006 attacked the Website of the city of Las Cruces for the second time in two days. The hacker posted pictures showing
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/23
Arrival of Exploit Code and Subsequent Patch for Microsoft OS
'Proof of concept' exploit code has begun to appear on the Internet. It provides detailed instructions to launch attack on wormholes in Microsoft Windows.
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/23
Small Companies Avoiding IT Security
Claranet, a managed services expert, organized an IT security event at the House of Lords, UK. Here, Schimdt said that that absence of proper security
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/23
Zango Not Following FTC Terms
FTC, on November 3, 2006 announced that Bellevue (Washington) based Zango (formerly called as 180Solutions) had accepted to pay a fine of $3 Million that
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/22
Spam Is On A Rise Again
Stephen Pao, vice President, Product Manager, Barracuda Networks, said that the observed hike in the penny stocks trading volume that are boosted in the
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/22
Phishing Attack Luring SBI Customers
Customers are getting fake mails that claims that their banking details has to upgraded due to an upgrade to servers. The mail gives a link to spoofed ...
SPAMfighter News 2006/11/22
Microsoft Shows Up a Range of Vulnerabilities
In its weekly report released on November 17, 2006, Panda Software lists the vulnerabilities as MS06-066, MS06-067, MS06-068, MS06-069, MS06-070 and
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/22
IBM Protects Customers From Microsoft Vulnerabilities
IBM has promised to use its 'Internet Security Systems' to help customers to all possible extent in tackling recent Microsoft vulnerabilities. This was
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/22
Guidance Software Enters a Settlement With FTC
On November 16, 2005, Guidance Software Inc. declared that it settled Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges related to a security failure the same year
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/22
Experts Suggest Alternatives to Banking E-mails
Banks and computer security experts are not agreeing on the issue whether banks can use e-mails to communicate with their customers. They feel it is unsafe
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/21
WinZip Launches ‘Build 7245’ to Fix Flaw
Windows' 'compression software' WinZip holds an 'ActiveX module' in version 10 during its installation in the system. Unluckily, the module has a security
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/21
Spanish Hackers Arrested for Cyber Crimes
As per the reports of a Spanish newspaper, a couple of 17 year-olds were apprehended in Alicante on Nov 15 2006, accused of producing a Trojan, which
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/21
Panda’s Online Scanner Contains Bugs and Hole
Secunia, the firm that specializes in assessing vulnerability declared on November 16, 2006 that it is trailing a flaw and two bugs in Panda Software's free
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/21
OIT To Assume Charge Of Systems Security At UT
The computer network of the University of Tennessee is daily bombarded by countless cyber-terrorists, stated Brice Bible, the chief information officer at
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/21
Microsoft’s Much Awaited Forefront Client Security Released
Microsoft's timely corporate security system, Forefront Client Security, has been issued to public beta. The newfangled concept, blending the ...
SPAMfighter News 2006/11/21
Criminals Organize Spam Attack to Raise Stock Prices
Large number of consumer inboxes tends to be flooded with "pump-and-dump" stock scams infiltrating over years. Security firm PandaLabs has spotted
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/20
Privacy And Data Protection Critical To Future Success
In today's progressively globalized business atmosphere, organizations still have to endeavor to upgrade their data security, with confidentiality and
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/20
Messagelabs And Telstra Announce Business Broadband Plans
The SMB scheme of Telstra is available in a wide selection, encompassing Business Broadband Starter for small business concerns, Business Broadband
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/20
Spamhaus’ List Of 10 Worst International Spammers
The leading anti-spam organization Spamhaus, committed to combating and preventing the
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/20
SANS Highlights Twenty Top Hacker Targets
During its yearly appraisal of the biggest security troubles detected this year, the SANS Institute on November 15, 2006 named zero-day strikes and human
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/20
Cyber Saboteurs Target Australian Broadband Users
The spread of broadband web access in Australian households is putting users at greater risk of being targeted by hackers, industry analysts have cautioned.
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/18
Trojan Keylogger Downloaded With Adobe Spoof Email
A spoof message aiming Adobe users - purporting to have the recent variant of the firm's PDF reader, but actually bearing a malevolent Trojan keylogger -
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/18
Rigged RealMedia Files Install Trojans
It is acknowledged that media files like videos or songs can be exploited to sneak in malware onto
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/18
Service-Denial-Attacks in the UK Now Attract Stricter Penalties
Under a new law in the UK, a jail sentence of up to ten years along with fines now awaits hackers carrying out service denial attacks. The Police and
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/18
Porn Sites Surreptitiously Use Malicious Software To Infect Computers
Users who regularly visit websites with porn content have been asked to be careful. In the course of surfing through such sites, the user is likely to be
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/18
Mozilla Takes Lead Over Microsoft In Fight Against Phishing
A survey authorized by Mozilla grants Firefox 2 a huge victory over Microsoft's IE 7 in the fight to bar ID thieving scam sites, however both Web browsers
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/18
Microsoft Turns Heat On Spyware Creators
Regrettably, the authorities often leave firms run by spyware developers and ...
SPAMfighter News 2006/11/17
McAfee Joins Forces With .im registry to Fight Spammers
The Isle of Man has intensified its battle against spammers tapping its .im
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/17
Discovery of More Politically Motivated Spam in the US
Monitors of Spam at PandaLabs have noticed an operation aimed at inducing users to visit a page hostile to the US government. Security information was sent
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/17
Microsoft Releases Updates For Better Security
Patches released by Microsoft fix crucial vulnerabilities in IE and Windows. Two of the released patches fix crucial flaws that are being exploited actively
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/17
Hackers Strike Anti-Doping Lab Computers, Steal Data
Global cyber-terrorists furnishing data for perpetrating frauds to counteract the battle against drug-usage in athletics might appear very far fetched but
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/17
E-Market Website Hacker Arrested
On September 22, 2006, Nguyen Quang Huy alias Huy Remy aged 22, hooked up his PC to the server of Peacesoft, the InfoTech solution company and subsequently
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/17
Spyware Activities Restrained By Court Order
At first sight it is highly improbable that a company like ERG Ventures should be investigated by the FTC for engaging in the distribution of screensavers
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/16
Symantec Refutes Adware Charges Against LiveConnect
Customers of the Symantec product line like Norton antivirus received a surreptitious install,
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/16
U.S Social Security Agency Alerts About Phishing Scam
As per the Social Security commissioner Jo Anne Barnhart and Social Security inspector general Patrick O'Carroll Jr., the organization has got some
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/16
Hackers All Set To Take Advantage of Festive Season
The Product Strategy Vice President of PC Tools, Michael Greene, cautioned that one out of 10 holiday shoppers may end up confronting some form of spyware,
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/16
Microsoft Blocking Gmail
Live OneCare, Microsoft's virus scanning software Windows has reportedly started blocking Gmail as a virus leaving many users seeing a warning indicating
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/16
Cyber Child abuser Sentenced To Imprisonment
36 year old resident of Ilkeston in Derbyshire, Adrian Ringland, admitted impelling young girls to forward him naked photos after affecting their PCs with a
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/15
Another Attempt Of Islamic Hackers to Move the Vatican City Flopped
The proclamation was made through the formation of an ad hoc Website where attackers can download the programs to initiate the Internet strike. The web
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/15
Hackers Attack On Laiki Bank Failed
Laiki Bank, on November 10, 2006, said that none of the banl's customers had been fooled by a worldwide scam that asks users to log into their bank accounts
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/15
New Variants of Spamta Worms Flood Computers
On November 9, 2006, PandaLabs found seven recent versions of Spamta worm operational within a short span of time. All are planned to direct themselves to
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/15
Microsoft Preparing to Turn Address Bar into Traffic Signal
The purpose of providing a colored bar is to let the users know which site is authentic and which is fake, so that users can carry out the transactions
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/15
Hackers Slip Through Security Software To Hack Lubbock City System
District, state and national agencies keep on probing the November 9, 2006 thievery of private information from Lubbock's online civic job application
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/14
Videos From Fake YouTube Install Adware
Wensense, the security vendor, reported that it has located porn videos that need the Zango installation from a fake YouTube site. The trend is rising on
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/14
UK Organizations Fall Victim To Malware Attacks
Most of the companies in UK have been the targets of a malware strike and the business connotations
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/14
Serious Flaw In Broadcom Wi-Fi
The susceptibility is a 'stack-based buffer flush' in Broadcom BCMWL5.SYS wireless driver. As per the reports, it could let an attacker to gain complete
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/14
New Email-Aware Worm Poses As False Breaking News Story
Security Company Sophos is alerting cybernauts about the latest email-aware worm that impersonates several fake breaking news -- such as, flare-up of a
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/14
Mozilla Introduces Patches To Cure Product Flaws
A couple of weeks following the general issue of Firefox 2.0, the open-source organization Mozilla Corp. on November 8, 2006 brought out a set of vital
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/13
America Online ICQ Compromised
Investigators of TippingPoint cautioned America Online ICQ computer users regarding a flaw that permits hackers to penetrate software onto the target's
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/13
US Leads Spam Relaying Countries
Computers in the US relayed 21.6 percent of the global spam between August-September. China, in second spot, represented 13.4 percent. France, Spain and
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/13
US And S. Korea Major Victims Of Phishing Scams
The file, which is executed by the net start-up OpenDNS and gathers data from volunteers, affirmed 3,678 official ...
SPAMfighter News 2006/11/13
Second Zero-Day Vulnerability Hit Windows
Microsoft realized that attackers are trying to take advantage of a critical, unpatched security hole existing in all versions of Windows baring Windows
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/13
Phishing, Very Expensive For Users
As per a survey by Gartner Inc., the number of adults in US who are sure or believe that they have got ...
SPAMfighter News 2006/11/13
Microsoft Integrated Code Protection In Visual Studio
On November 7, 2006, Microsoft declared at its TechEd show in Barcelona that next edition of Microsoft Visual Studio (code named as Orcas) will consist of
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/13
Microsoft Installs New Monitoring Tool For Windows
Shortly after its July 2006 purchase of Winternals Software by Mark Russinovich, Microsoft has substituted the established Regmon and Filemon softwares with
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/13
Google Mails Kama Sutra Worm To Video Group Subscribers
On Tuesday, November 7, 2006, Google by chance transmitted messages carrying a bulk-mailing worm called Kama-Sutra to nearly 50,000 members of some e-mail
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/13
Dating Site Hacker’s Date With Jail For 8 Months
Matthew Byrne pleaded guilty of hacking onto the website of the dating agency loveandfriends.com and damaging some member profiles in August 2004.
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SPAMfighter News 2006/11/13
US Politicians Circulating Spam
As per the security specialist Sophos' researchers, innumerable PC users got unauthorized mails from Republican and Democratic candidates before November 7,
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/10
Successful Arrest and Detention of Hacker on the Run
It is believed that Goodin sent spam e-mails that seemed to have originated in the billing section of America Online (AOL). Thousands of such
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/10
Four Global Hackers Arrested in Chile
Four people suspected of computer hacking were arrested in Chile on November 6, 2006. They are accused of belonging to a worldwide group that has invaded
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/10
FTC Alleges Yesmail of violating Federal Law
A firm, Marketer Yesmail Inc., has concurred to pay a civil fine of $50,717 to resolve the Federal Trade Commission allegations. The FTC suspected Yesmail
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/10
Bouchard Website Shut Down Due To Attack By Hackers
According to a Republican informant, even though party functionaries thought that matters were moving quite efficiently, they were worried about
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/10
Spam Deluge Threatens Corporate Networks
Spam has been rising actively over the past couple of months. A majority of it is infiltrating the screening devices that had earlier proved quite
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/9
Student Hacked School’s Site To Raise Grades
A consultant from Cooper City High Guidance was preparing report cards on November 2, 2006 when he noticed something missing. He at once reported it to the
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/9
People Prefer Direct Mail Over Spam
As per a recent study by researchers from the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication showed that most of the people
...SPAMfighter News 2006/11/9
Spam Mails Disabled ihug Services
In the last week of October, spam received by ihug increased by 50%. It was a part of global phenomenon mostly generated in Asia. From 75000 customers of
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