Barry Welford, one of the Cre8easiteforums moderators, has just alerted us to the follow phishing scam that is targeting Google Account holders. I have now twice within the last few days had a very authentic-looking Gmail message from Google that in fact is a phishing exploit. If you click on the www.google.com link you...
There is currently a major PC virus attack in progress, which is affecting millions of PC’s, and mostly is going unnoticed by home computer owners that do not follow PC security news, or run AV software. The virus is called Conflicker, and appeared in October 2008. All the major AV houses spotted it and...
Computer security firm Sophos has warned that many new websites have sprung up that are exploiting the death of actress Natasha Richardson. Many of the sites are designed to attract people that are searching for information on her life and the tragic skiining accident, but then host bogus anti-virus software which is actually a...
Today a major UK retail chain has lost all internet visibility. All of DSG International’s online stores are currently off-line! The websites for Dixons, Currys and PC World have all been offline for most of the day today. The message on each website states that “We’re reall sorry, our website is not available at...
We received an email today stating that our domain was being cancelled as the WHOIS information was not correct. Here is a except of the email: On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 08:04:38 +0200 we received a third party complaint of invalid domain contact information in the Whois database for this domain. Whenever we receive...
There is a new trend in online theft – criminals are targeting CV’s to obtain personal data. Job seekers have been cautioned to be extra careful when sending CVs to employers’ websites or online recruitment agencies. In an experiment using a fake website, 107 people submitted their CVs, full of personal information that could...
OK, this sounds like a 70′s horror movie, but it is actually one of the greatest threats currently to online security. It is estimated that there are now about 300,000 zombie computers operating. These are computers that have been taken over by hackers and are being used to send spam, or infect other machines...
If you are receiving a lot of spam mail, then your name could be to blame. Research by Cambridge University has shown that spammers tend to target email addresses that start with the letters A, M or S. So Andrews, Mandy’s and Simons will on average receive more spam that Quentins and Karls. In...
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