Archive for May, 2009

Protect Yourself From Identity Theft with TrustedID

May 4, 2009 - With the incredible growth of identity theft, there have been a few businesses that have been formed with the express objective of making it easy for you to fight back. By putting a fraud alert on your credit bureau report, (continue reading...) Read more

Yet Another Twitter Worm

May 4, 2009 - A new Twitter cross-site scripting worm is going around on Twitter. Just like the previous Twitter worms it talks about Mikeey.Other messages used by the worm include: (continue reading...) Read more

Swine Flu Spam Attempt to Infect Japanese Users

May 3, 2009 - Another swine flu-related spam run was recently reported, this time targeting Japanese users. Aside from using the swine flu as its social engineering method, which has already been used in earlier spam runs, this spam run also uses a (continue reading...) Read more

Porn Sites Lead to MBR Rootkit

May 3, 2009 - Websites related to pornography that appear to be compromised were found by Trend Micro engineers loading malicious JavaScript which redirects users onto malicious domains that ultimately lead to the download of an MBR rootkit (TROJ_SNOWAL.A)onto the affected system. (continue reading...) Read more

Koobface Tries CAPTCHA Breaking

May 3, 2009 - Early this week, we’ve encountered a new Koobface spam campaign which involved links that eventually led users to this Youtube copycat web page. (continue reading...) Read more

What Happens When You Put in a Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint?

May 3, 2009 - The key to getting the right kind of help when you think that your identity has been exploited wrongfully is to make the complaint at the right time. Time is of the essence here. You have to know who the (continue reading...) Read more

Identity Theft Protection is a Must to Protect Your Good Name

May 2, 2009 - The stealing of identities is one the the most rapidly growing crime in America, with one in every four households falling victim to it. This is a very grave crime that can have extreme repercussions for its victims. Therefore, it (continue reading...) Read more

Tips to Prevent Identity Theft Online

May 2, 2009 - Identity theft is an issue that we all need to take seriously. There are thousands of people around the world who have been made a victim of this crime and have suffered greatly for it. It involves stealing, misrepresenting or (continue reading...) Read more

10 Reasons You Need An Adware And Spyware Removal Program

May 2, 2009 - Hi, Jimmy Goodwin here, as an certified independent computer technician I am a continually being called out to someone’s house or business to either speed up a slow running computer or in the worst case repair a PC that has (continue reading...) Read more

Self Defense Spray-Is It A Intelligent Self Defense Products Option

May 2, 2009 - Self Defense Spray is probably the best thing to get as a Self Defense Products choice. Self defense spray is non-lethal to not only the bad guy but also to the user. Should the robber get (continue reading...) Read more

Identity Theft Secret– How to Prevent It?

May 1, 2009 - Identity theft is a thing that most people be fright of now. Actually, identity theft is impersonating someone for some illicit purposes. Commonly, identity theft is carried out in the favor of financial, job or occasionally medical insurance. (continue reading...) Read more

Swine Flu Subjects and e-Pharmacy Sites

May 1, 2009 - We have been getting quite a few requests for screenshots of swine flu spams as well as the e-pharmacy sites they link to. Your wish is our command. …The image below is a collection of a bunch of swine flu (continue reading...) Read more

A closer look at a Swine Flu spam

May 1, 2009 - It’s been just a few days since we started talking about spam using Swine Flu as a way to catch user’s attention to sell pills. This time, however, the message is not very “healthy”:   (continue reading...) Read more

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