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<!– Sign up for our Newsletters | –> Sign up for our Newsletters |   Email the Editor  |  Print  Email phishing scams have grown more sophisticated since they first began popping up in corporate inboxes in the 1990s. Early phishing emails were relatively easy to detect as they were characterized by poor grammar and …

A 51-year-old Fontana man was killed last night by a pedestrian accident in Rialto, according to San Bernardino County coroner’s officials. Adnan Preciado died at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center following the 9:22 p.m. incident Tuesday along the 800 block of Foothill Boulevard. Rialto police are investigation the cause of the crash but have released no …

According to MX Lab, cyber-criminals are distributing phishing e-mails written in Netherlands’ national language while aiming at the inboxes of ABN Amro clients in The Netherlands and Belgium, published softpedia.com dated April 11, 2012. Addressing recipients of the fraudulent electronic mail, the message states that ABN Amro lately examined the user’s account and doubted some …

CORPUS CHRISTI — Phishing, smishing now texts … Oh my! Cellphone texts can now spell trouble, alongside those tax and election time phishing folks seeking to confuse you or hook your information. “We’ve thought for years someone was going to start texting scams, and now they have,” said Alan Bligh, president of Corpus Christi’s Better …

Tax season is finally coming to a close: Tuesday is the deadline for filing your federal income tax return. While the Internal Revenue Service encourages electronic filing of returns, it doesn’t yet make use of e-mail or social media tools to begin communication with taxpayers, because of security concerns. The agency says that is important …

I can’t really avoid mentioning the Counter eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS), put on by the Anti-Phishing Working Group et al., in Cybercrime Corner. I’ve known and occasionally worked with APWG for many years, as its focus has widened to embrace a wider range of cybercrime. We don’t talk so much about phishing nowadays, but it …

April 17, 2012 A fishing rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson, English author (1709-1784). Fishing and angling have long been with us and also warning about fishing in troubled water from Henry Mathew, eminent English divine (1662-1714). Now we have crooks phishing …

Cybercrime Expert Stu Sjouwerman Asserts Internet Security Awareness Training (ISAT) Can Help Prevent Data Breaches of Protected Healthcare Information (PHI) Clearwater, FL (PRWEB) April 16, 2012 Recent research reports show an increase in protected healthcare information (PHI) breaches, prompting Internet Security Awareness Training (ISAT) firm KnowBe4 to reach out to healthcare IT professionals concerning the …

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The Duke community should be wary of email links from unfamiliar addresses—even if they seem to be from Duke-affiliated groups. A phishing attack last week marked the latest of four major cases since December that have sought to garner Duke NetIDs and passwords to send spam messages from the compromised email accounts, said Cara Bonnett, …

New phishing scam targets military users, DFAS warns By Kevin McCaney Apr 16, 2012 A new phishing campaign is targeting military service members, retirees and civilian employees receiving disability compensation, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service warns. The e-mail scam dangles the prospect of additional disability compensation in an effort to get recipients to give …

SEATTLE — Text mail spam is especially annoying, since you pay for that message unless you have an unlimited plan. It’s also a growing problem. The New York Times reports that cell phone users in the U.S. received an estimated 4.5 billion spam texts last year. That’s more than double the 2.2 billion text spam …

In the past several days the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office has learned that some cell phone users have been receiving fake text messages. There are two messages in particular that we want to warn citizens about, according to DA’s Office Enforcement Officer Dave Edwards. “The first begins: ‘Dear Walmart Shopper, Congratulations you have just …

Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2012 11:41 pm | Updated: 1:00 am, Fri Apr 13, 2012. Students fall victim to phishing scam By Samantha Bilharz/Managing Editor The Daily Eastern News | 1 comment About 13 hundred people on Eastern’s network fell victim to an email phishing scam on Wednesday. The spam email was sent out around 8 …

While phishing and malware increased in the first quarter, spam levels stayed constant Security provider eleven announced on Friday that results from its April 2012 email security report indicate that phishing emails increased by 169.6 percent in the first quarter of 2012. In the same quarter, malware emails increased by 83.7 percent. These results come …

An esteemed Telecom company, Verizon lately alerted its clients to one fresh phishing e-mail campaign, which’s rapidly proliferating online, while hitting their inboxes, published Wirelessandmobilenews.com in news dated April 3, 2012. Posing as a message from Verizon, the fake electronic mail tells the recipient that his latest bill pertaining to his account, currently, can be …

Macworld received a phishing email this morning claiming to be from the United Kingdom Apple Store and offering us a “Bonus Offer” for being long-term customers. In the wake of Flashback, we thought we should take this opportunity to outline Apple’s advice for avoiding such schemes.  The email claimed that thanks to our “loyalty” we are …

CIO – Email phishing scams have grown more sophisticated since they first began popping up in corporate inboxes in the 1990s. Early phishing emails were relatively easy to detect as they were characterized by poor grammar and spelling. No legitimate business would send an email to customers chockfull of typos. As email users grew wary …

Customers of HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, are currently being targeted with a fake warning of account suspension: The email claims that someone tried to access the user’s account and failed, and that the bank suspended the account in order to protect the customer. Unfortunately, the offered …

Iowa issues order to Nebraska-based contractorApril 12, 2012 16:19 GMT %reldate(2012-04-12T16:17:07 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Polk County judge has ordered a Nebraska-based contractor to follow Iowa’s consumer fraud and door-to-door sales laws. A news release from the office of Iowa Attorney General Thomas Miller says the judge also ordered the company, NationWide Construction …