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How To Remove XP Defender Pro
from spyware-removal-guide.net | Friday, March 19, 2010
Manual removal instructions of XP Defender Pro. Download XP Defender Pro Remover. Remove and uninstall XP Defender Pro virus (malware) now.
Facebook users beware ! New email scam can Steal Your Passwords
from 419legal.org | Friday, March 19, 2010
This is something again which doesn’t really sounds good. As Internet is expanding world wide day by day,with social networking , it is clear online scam artists will not miss any chance to strike your inbox .
In a latest update ,computer criminals are targeting face book users ,worlds largest social networking website by circulating fraud email ,which directly efforts to steal users passwords ,confirms one of the leading security software designer McAfee.
Fake ‘PlayStation Emulator’ Drops Trojan
from spamfighter.com | Friday, March 19, 2010
Fans of Retro games are confronting attacks from a new scareware scam that cyber-criminals have devised to load a Trojan onto people’s PCs.
As said by the security Researcher Chris Boyd at Sunbelt Software, downloads pretending to be PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulators, which help to play games online, pertaining to Sony’s console, actually just produce a Trojan. For instance, the Appzkeygen.com offered emulators, arrive bundled with Trojan CodecPack-2GCash-Gen, as per the news published by The Register on March 11, 2010.
Phishing Scams
Phishing increased 62 percent in ‘09
from sunbeltblog.blogspot.com | Friday, March 19, 2010
The DarkReading site is carrying a story about brand-protection firm MarkMonitor’s finding that phishing increased 62 percent in 2009 with 565,502 attacks in the year. MarkMonitor is based in San Francisco.
To Fight Scammers, Russia Cracks Down on .Ru Domain
from cio.com | Friday, March 19, 2010
Starting April 1, anyone who registers a .ru domain will need to provide a copy of their passport or, for businesses, legal registration papers. Right now, domains can be set up with no verification — a practice that has allowed scammers to quickly set up .ru domains under bogus names.
The changes will help Russia align its rules with international best practices, said Olga Ermakova, informational projects manager with the Coordination Center for the .ru top-level domain, in an e-mail interview. The .ru administrators care about the “cleanness” of the domain, she added. “We don’t need negative content, and such content is often [created] by unknown users.”
Gotcha!
Unprecedented 25-Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hacker
from wired.com | Friday, March 19, 2010
Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez deserves a quarter-century behind bars for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from a transaction processor and several giant retail chains, federal prosecutors argued in a court filing Thursday night.
“[T]he sentences would be the longest ever imposed in an identity theft case and among the longest imposed for a financial crime, which is appropriate because Gonzalez was at the center of the largest and most costly series of identity thefts in the nation’s history,” wrote Boston-based Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann. “He knowingly victimized a group of people whose population exceeded that of many major cities and some states.”
