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August 27, 2011

Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:02 PM/CST

Zscaler Finds Gmail Phishing Website

Researchers at Zscaler warned of a phishing site that looks very similar to the Google Gmail login page.

April 21, 2011

Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:52 PM/CST

Cyber-Thief Hackett Pleads Guilty to Credit Card Theft

Rogelio Hackett, Jr pled guilty to stealing credit card numbers and selling them in a criminal enterprise that spanned nine years.

April 6, 2011

Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:45 PM/CST

Former Gucci Employee Indicted for IT Rampage

Sam Chihlung Yin was indicted for doing something people people generally only joke about: retaliating against a former employer by hacking into the network. His IT attack also exposed serious flaws in Gucci America's IT policies.

August 26, 2010

Thursday, August 26, 2010 11:20 AM/CST

Cyber-crime Site Pushes Forged Passports, Licenses

McAfee put the spotlight recently on yet another profitable activity of cyber-criminals - the forgery of passports and driver's licenses.

June 24, 2010

Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:44 AM/CST

Inside Text Message Phishing Attacks

Lars Harvey, CEO of Internet Identity, discusses how attackers are launching phishing attacks via text-message. The attacks often target customers of credit unions, and are designed to steal your account information.

April 8, 2010

Thursday, April 08, 2010 5:45 PM/CST

Phony eBay Security Warnings on the Prowl

Attackers continue to combine technical and social engineering attempts, including hacked pages of well-known sites such as eBay, to successfully target end users.

February 20, 2010

Saturday, February 20, 2010 9:32 AM/CST

Phishers Making A Bid With Auction Marketing Tools

Phishers are using fakes of online auction marketing sites to lure in unsuspecting end users as they continue to broaden and diversify their efforts.

February 18, 2010

Thursday, February 18, 2010 7:12 AM/CST

High-Profile Verticals Hammered with Malware Attacks

Attacks on highly sensitive verticals including the financial services and utilities sectors continue to outpace all other industries, researchers report.

February 17, 2010

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 7:56 AM/CST

More Signs of Impending Botnet War

There appears to be a real chance that a battle may soon ensue between the Zeus botnet and SpyEye attack which seeks to hijack Zeus-infected machines.

February 11, 2010

Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:55 AM/CST

Report: ID Fraud Grows At Record Pace

Identitiy theft continues to spiral out of control as a lagging world economy and even more sophisticated attack schemes combine to push the problem even farther and deeper than ever before.

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