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March 23, 2012 — Network World — IBM said it found surprising improvements in Internet security such as a reduction in application security vulnerabilities, exploit code and spam, but it also noted that those improvements come with a price: Attackers have been forced to rethink their tactics. BACKGROUND: From Anonymous to Hackerazzi: The year in …

Air Force Reserve Airman Melissa R. Gonzales graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. She is the daughter of Leticia Gonzales, of Temecula, and granddaughter of Fermina Hernandez, of Fallbrook. Gonzales graduated in 2009 from River Springs Charter School in Temecula.

Miguel Torres, 24, of Mira Loma, was pronounced dead Friday at 10:08 PM at Riverside County Regional Medical Center after the compact car he was driving collided head-on with a full-sized truck on Old Elsinore Road, just north of Marie Street in Mead Valley (Perris), according to the Riverside County Coroner.

The email looks like it’s coming from the Department of Homeland Security.  It says they’ve intercepted a cashier’s check with your name on it and they just need a little information. At first glance the email looks authentic, with a colorful letterhead and a government address, but when you examine it closely the red flags …

BBB issued an alert to everyone for remaining vigilant of a phishing e-mail that masquerading as American Express is extraordinarily sophisticated and currently circulating online, published krmg.com dated March 16, 2012. It maybe noted that American Express, which’s headquartered in the USA, is a financial services company operating across multiple countries. The fake e-mail with …

Japan’s national police agency and a regional bank in the country have deployed a voice recognition technology in mobile phones said to be capable of catching out phishing scams almost every time. Development of the claimed world first technology by Fujitsu and Nagoya University began in 2009 and has recently completed. Researchers say it was …

La Crescenta (Los Angeles County, California, USA) resident John Lajeuness, an ATT subscriber along with more customers lately got one phishing e-mail posing as a message from ATT the highly-reputed company on telecommunications, reported latimes.com dated March 15, 2012. Describing the e-mail as appearing very legitimate, Lajeuness stated that it was well crafted to make …

FRIDAY, MAR. 23: The Department of Consumer Affairs, the Bermuda Monetary Authority and the Bermuda Police Service have recently come together to raise consumer awareness of three financial scams targeting local residents – phishing, pyramid schemes and the passing of counterfeit Bermuda notes. While we do monitor a variety of scams that can leave consumers …

Police have arrested a voice phishing gang who allegedly stole 40 million won (35,400 U.S. dollars) a day on average. With the money, the con artists are known to have earned profits by buying clothes and shoes and reselling them in China. In Seoul’s Songpa district Thursday, police said 11 people were booked on the …

A new phishing scam is distributing bulk electronic mails supposedly from LAN Airlines pretending to be certain notice to the recipient that the Airlines couldn’t keep his request for flight change as there’s no credit card contract by it with the MasterCard Company, published softpedia.com dated March 19, 2012. Here it maybe mentioned that LAN …

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is bewaring Canadian taxpayers to remain cautious of tax-themed phishing email that are outgoing in internet and targeting them. The e-mail resembles an official mail and mostly connects to a website looking the same as the legal business website, which might be a bank or a government department. Instances of …

I am afraid not. You have been a victim of what’s known as secondary phishing. The owner’s own email – outside the online agent’s website and control – has been hacked and compromised. HomeAway is simply an advertising portal and customer inquiries are directed to the property owner’s personal email address. The fraudster intercepts the …

Nagoya University and Fujitsu developed the first technology to analyze phone conversations to automatically detect situations in which one party might “over trust” the other party. Specifically, this is the kind of situation in which an individual may have a diminished capacity to objectively evaluate an explanation being given by the other party. By combining …

It’s not just your bank account that is being threatened by phishing e-mails, now it’s your online shopping accounts too. Woking, UK. 22nd March 2012 – Banks used to be the sole target for phishing e-mails. They are still targeted but research by First Cyber Security, the internet security company, has shown that as more …

SAGINAW, MI (WNEM) – Some customers of a Saginaw credit union have received phony messages that are part of scam to obtain personal information.  United Financial Credit Union, at 2510 Weiss St., was recently the target of a phishing attack. Officials at the credit union said phishing is the practice of sending an e-mail or …

By Andrew Charlesworth