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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 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 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 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 A warning which is currently circulating in security circles concerns a Spear Phishing attack masquerading as a company virus warning. The object is to trick users into installing malware on their computers which would compromise their security. Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details . . . → Read More: Spear Phishing Attack Warning Have you been having trouble with Spam from your Contact Page on your WordPress blog? This is a quick way to Block Spam from a WordPress Contact Page. Every good website has a Contact page to ensure that users can get questions answers, and customers can engage before buying goods and services. The trouble is . . . → Read More: Block Spam from WordPress Contact Page The hot news on the blogosphere at the moment is the revelation that a Keylogger virus has infected the drone plane command centre at Creech air force base in Nevada. Keylogging (or Keystroke logging) is the action of tracking (or logging) the keys struck on the keyboard, typically in a covert manner so that . . . → Read More: Keylogger virus infects drone plane command centre The spam filters have been busy over the last couple of days, with a number of Emails with the title of ACH NOTIFICATION and ACH Payment [Number] Rejected. In each case the email contains an attachment purporting to be a self extracting PDF file. Of course, on closer examination the supposed self extracting PDF file . . . → Read More: ACH Spam With Malware Attachment If you live anywhere except the City of New York you may have been surprised to receive an email recently, which claims to come from the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. Even if you aren’t based in the United States, or even don’t drive a car, you may well see the posting which . . . → Read More: Uniform Traffic Ticket Malware Spam Have you ever seen the the ICO auditers? If your company was to receive a call from them, how well do think you would fare? This week the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published an Executive Summary of its Data Protection Audit Report on Google, following the revelation that Google were inadvertently collecting wi-fi . . . → Read More: Google Data Protection Audit Report Published |
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