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SOUTHFIELD — The Better Business Bureau of Eastern Michgan warned against a new twist on a phishing email scam that attempts to use the BBB’s trusted name to get private information from small businesses and consumers. The campaign that started last week was the second biggest phishing scam in the country on Wednesday, according to …

Text messaging is the most common non-voice use of a mobile phone. There are trillions of text messages received around the world each day, and an increasing number of them are spam, or phishing attacks of some sort. A report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project claims that 73 percent of adults with …

(PRWEB) May 03, 2012 When a small plumbing company in Monroe, Louisiana, got an email yesterday from BBB saying they’d had a complaint filed against them, they took it seriously. After all, the company is a BBB Accredited Business and the owner serves on the board of directors of BBB of Northeast Louisiana. What they …

Scott Cosby is a friend I’ve known professionally through his work as VP of Products and Operations at Invincea. I recently watched a video which featured Scott demonstrating a typical Spear Phishing attack and how Invincea mitigates that challenge. Invincea cannot prevent attacks, in fact, it was produced with an understanding that crafty bad guys …

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) – The Better Business Bureau is warning business owners to watch out for emails that claim new complaints have been filed against them. The BBB says it’s a phishing scam. A small plumbing company in Monroe, LA got an email from the BBB saying they’d had a complaint filed against them. The …

For more than four months, fraudulent emails have been going out that falsely appear to be coming from the Better Business bureau. A person who receives one of the emails is meant to be fooled into thinking a complaint has been filed against that person’s business, according to a Better Business Bureau statement. The emails …

Although phishing attacks were down worldwide in the second half of 2011, they were up significantly inside China and, as a result, a Chinese domain name replaced Paypal.com as the most commonly phished domain name. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) recently published its 2011 Global Phishing Survey (PDF download), which says that phishing attacks “exploded” …

British defence contractors are being targeted by a sophisticated campaign that uses specifically tailored malicious emails to try to gain access to their systems, according to Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude. An information-sharing hub has revealed a campaign to break into defence contractors’ systems via a tailored malicious email campaign, according to Cabinet Office minister …

(Source: FBI) – NEWARK, NJ—Waya Nwaki today admitted his role in an Internet fraud ring that stole more than $1.3 million after “phishing” confidential account information from Internet users, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Nwaki, a/k/a “Shawn Conley,” a/k/a “usaprince12k,” 31, of Atlanta, pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud …

(PRWEB) May 03, 2012 When a small plumbing company in Monroe, Louisiana, got an email yesterday from BBB saying they’d had a complaint filed against them, they took it seriously. After all, the company is a BBB Accredited Business and the owner serves on the board of directors of BBB of Northeast Louisiana. What they …

Banks in India regularly send their customers emails about phishing and vishing scams â?? how not to reveal your web identity and personal data and fall prey to fraudulent emails. But at the same time, they regularly peep into the bank accounts of its customers in the name of customer relationship. And the moment they …

When Gizmodo’s Alex Kidman asked if I had seen ‘this World of Warcraft ‘fishing’ thing’, I was so confused, but then I had a look at the email he had just been sent and it made perfect sense. Just a heads up — if you’ve been sent an email with the above image in it, …

ZoneAlarm has been the gold standard in free personal firewalls for many years. Budget-minded users combine it with a free antivirus to create an ad hoc security suite. With the release of ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall (free), you can get antivirus and firewall protection in one free security suite, along with effective phishing protection …

This is a consumer advice column written by the Better Business Bureau of Northern Indiana. It appears Thursdays in Business. Internet thieves are finding more imaginative and sophisticated ways to trick consumers into giving up banking and other personal information, using everything from fake airline reservation notices to phony FBI emails. It is more important …

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Wombat’s newest security awareness training module is a powerful tool to combat security breaches caused by employees. Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) May 01, 2012 Wombat Security Technologies (Wombat), a leading provider of cyber security training solutions, announced the release of “Security Beyond the Office”, a new software training module that teaches employees how they can keep …

5.0 stars “Major props to Checkpoint for releasing this” May 1, 2012  |   By jharris67 Version: ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus+Firewall 10.2.047 Pros Antivirus component apparently uses Kaspersky engine. Quiet and simple to use. An excellent new introduction in the freeware security arena. Cons As freeware, definition updates are limited to 24 hour increments. A little resource heavy, …

<!– –> Tweet – A A A + <!– –> St. Louis (KSDK) — Internet thieves are finding new ways to trick consumers everyday.  Thieves use a practice known as phishing to get consumers to hand over their banking and other personal information. The Consumer Fraud Task Force recommends being very careful before you even …

A German court ruled earlier this week that victims of phishing scams, and not banks, are responsible for money lost in online scams. The German Federal Court of Justice in the town of Karlsruhe made the ruling on Tuesday, according to English language German newspaper The Local, which called the ruling a landmark judgment. The case …

It’s hard to find someone who hasn’t been a victim of identity theft. In the computer age – e-mail phishing scams are a becoming a big problem.  Our Legal Expert Robin Sax talked to the U-S Attorney for the Central District of California- Andre Birotte Junior — who says – first of all – watch …