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Article | 27/05/2011 Everything you need to know about Mac scareware
You'd think it was the end of the world.
Article | 3/05/2011 Osama Bin Laden news spurs wave of scams, malware
Malware creators are already using the news of Osama Bin Laden's death as a opportunity to try and dupe people into clicking on malicious links. Accor...
Article | 2/05/2011 Osama bin Laden's death key topic on Internet
The announcement late Sunday of the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has set the Internet abuzz, as users searched for information and shared ...
Article | 13/04/2011 Aussie users still duped by Facebook scams: Sophos
A local security expert is dumbfounded by the ease in which a fake <i>Twilight: Breaking Dawn</i> game application has spread across Facebook, and has...
Article | 10/03/2011 Verizon offers refunds for fraudulent SMS messages
Verizon on Wednesday said that it filed a lawsuit this week against a group of people and related companies that it alleges duped people into signing ...
Article | 1/02/2011 Five new online security threats to avoid
I don't spend a lot of time on Facebook, so when I got an e-mail from the social networking site telling me "you haven't been back to Facebook recentl...
Article | 28/01/2011 Alleged 'scareware' vendors to pay $8.2 million to FTC
The operator of an alleged "scareware" scheme, using deceptive advertising to trick Internet users into buying software to fix their supposedly infect...
Article | 12/01/2011 Spectrum analyzer catches exam cheats in Taiwan
Police in Taiwan used a set of spectrum analyzers to catch at least three people suspected of cheating on an exam by monitoring them for mobile phone ...
Article | 11/01/2011 Facebook phishing email hits Australia
Security experts have warned of a convincing Facebook phishing scam doing the rounds in Australia.
Article | 11/01/2011 Hacked iTunes accounts taken off China e-commerce site
The sale of hacked iTunes accounts in China has been dealt a blow as the Chinese online retailer Taobao.com has decided to remove all product listings...
Article | 7/01/2011 Hacked iTunes accounts continue to sell in China
The sale of iTunes accounts that have reportedly been hacked has yet to be stopped by Apple or the Chinese e-commerce site hosting the sellers.
Article | 10/11/2010 Man pleads guilty to $4.8 million ATM fraud
The general manager of a business partner of Connecticut's Domestic Bank has pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme that siphoned millions from automa...
Article | 30/10/2010 Mistype Twitter or Facebook, win an iPad (or not)
A slip on the keyboard could land Web surfers on questionable survey pages instead of the websites they really want to visit: Twitter, Facebook or You...
Article | 21/10/2010 Facebook sues over free gift card, 'dislike' button scams
Facebook has filed lawsuits aimed at cracking down on a variety of scams that have been running wild on the social-networking site in recent months.
Article | 21/10/2010 Man pleads guilty to using hack, pump-and-dump botnet
A Chandler, Arizona, man has pleaded guilty to charges related to his role in a pump-and-dump scam that inflated penny stock prices via spam and hacke...

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