Because of phishing, operating a Mac yields no more protection from cybercrime than running a Windows machine, according to a survey conducted by ...
During the third quarter of the year, spam accounted for 92 percent of all email on average, which breaks the previous record-high volume ...
Microsoft's Live Hotmail was not the only target in what appears to be a widespread phishing ploy targeting unsuspecting webmail users. Users of Gmail and Yahoo have joined Hotmail as victims in what appears to be a large-scale webmail phishing campaign designed ...
The amount of the amount of spam containing malware increased ninefold during September over the previous month, according to Symantec. The amount of spam containing malicious attachments spiked in September and has remained at an elevated level since, according to Symantec's "State ...
Authorities charge nearly 100 people in US, Egypt with 'phishing' identity theft scheme U.S. and Egyptian authorities have charged nearly 100 people with helping an identity theft ring steal money from thousands of bank accounts. An FBI statement says an indictment unsealed ...
Google and Yahoo! on Tuesday joined a growing roster of Web-based email service providers with users duped by hackers into betraying passwords to accounts. A day after Microsoft blocked access to thousands of Hotmail accounts in response to hackers plundering password information ...
More than 150,000 phishing URLs were established during Q2 of 2009, surpassing previous record-high levels during the first quarter of 2007. The number of phishing URLs has reached a record high during the second quarter of 2009, according to internet fraud and ...
Malware-laden emails, at a rate of 90,000 per hour, are trying to dupe recipients into believing they have been implicated in defrauding the IRS. Researchers at an email security firm warned Wednesday of a new spam run that seeks to infect machines ...
Hong Kong is under siege from legions of "zombies" attacking people with spam and leaving in their wake a trail of destruction costing millions of dollars a year, analysts have warned. It sounds like the plot of a surrealist B-movie but it ...
Throughout 2008, phishing attacks were present in 0.5 percent of all spam, but during the first half of 2009 they dropped to 0.1 percent, according to IBM's mid-year security report. Phishing is on a drastic decline as attackers shift their focus to ...
Phishy e-mails falling as scammers switch tactics, IBM security researchers say Internet criminals might be rethinking a favorite scam for stealing people's personal information. A report being released Wednesday by IBM Corp. shows a big drop in the volume of "phishing" e-mails, ...
