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Visa Scam Email Circulating

The spam filters are currently picking out a Visa Scam Email circulating at the moment which is claiming that your card has been blocked for security reasons. If your email browser will render the html, it looks something like this Visa Scam Screenshot:

Visa Scam Screenshot

Analysis of the content shows a hyperlink which . . . → Read More: Visa Scam Email Circulating

We Can All Tackle Violence At Work

Just read a great post called Tackle Violence At Work, which outlines legislation relating to violence and bullying at work, and serves as a reminder that violence takes many disguises, including non-physical bullying.

According to Bully Online, the motive common to all bullies is a personal need to control others. Half of all bullies . . . → Read More: We Can All Tackle Violence At Work

Max Rebo Band Website Live

The featured Blog this week is Max Rebo Band Website, which is a WordPress site using the default Twenty Eleven 1.2 theme. Kudos to Rich Pegler, the band’s drummer and webmaster, who has set this great site up from scratch. This just shows you the flexibility of WordPress out of the box, and the Max . . . → Read More: Max Rebo Band Website Live

Bredolab Botnet Still Active

More Tax Payment malware news today, with a resurgence of the Bredolab botnet.

Our MessageLabs Anti-Virus Service reported a suspicious email, similar to the Tax Spam Malware Warning yesterday. The message title once again was Your Tax Payment ID [Random Number] is failed

This time Symantec reported it as Trojan.Bredolab, which is a likely . . . → Read More: Bredolab Botnet Still Active

Tax Spam Malware Warning

The spam filters are currently working overtime catching dubious email messages about tax payments having failed. As you might expect, this is a Tax Spam Malware Warning, so take care before opening anything that tells you that Your Tax Payment failed.

This email, which purports to be from US tax payment service Electronic Federal Tax . . . → Read More: Tax Spam Malware Warning

Malware Scripts Added To Websites

A couple of our customers have experienced hacks to their websites this last week, with malicious code (or malware) added to several pages. Normal visitors to the site have a little extra script added when they load the page, which good antivirus software will identify as a malware script. Kaspersky Labs identifies the Trojan loader . . . → Read More: Malware Scripts Added To Websites