UK government acts on hoax e-mail
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The government is writing to every embassy to stop a false e-mail rumour about the teaching of the Holocaust.
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Online auction house eBay confirms reports that some of its users have been hit by fake e-mails that could steal their account details.
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Spammers may be about to get a taste of their own medicine. A British company is today launching software that it claims will allow computer users to hit back at the mass mailers who clog up our inboxes with
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British police said on Sunday they had arrested a man after a hoaxer posing as a government official emailed relatives of people missing since the Asian tsunami, saying their loved ones had been confirmed dead.
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Having shown up at wired.com of all places just the other day, a story claiming that Paul's campaign staff or his supporters have been (email) spamming to get the message out. This is pure bullshit, and I'll explain why.
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A British man admitted Monday to sending hoax emails to friends and relatives of people missing since the Asian tsunami.
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Hoaxers imitated the BBC news website on the Internet, including a fake announcement that King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden had been assassinated in Athens while attending the Olympic Games, according to reports.
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With few junk e-mail filters supporting a protocol for verifying the source address of digital messages, spammers have adopted it themselves as a way to appear more legitimate, stated a report released on Wednesday.
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Online auction house eBay confirms reports that some of its users have been hit by fake emails that could steal their account details.
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Red Hat is reporting that they have been hit with an email security scam. The Raleigh, NC-based company issued a security alert to customers warning of fake emails being sent to users that are purportedly
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The e-mail appeared to be a routine correspondence between two friends. "Check this out!" it read, then listed a Web address.
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Linux maker Red Hat is warning users about an email that pretends to be an official security advisory but is actually a phishing-type scam that contains links to malicious code.
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Spam, the luncheon meat which valiantly sustained the country&#39;s war effort only to suffer so cruelly at the hands of Monty Python, is being relaunched in the UK.
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Red Hat posted a notice on their web site about fake emails that purport to come from them. Here is the statement in its entirety: &quot;Red Hat has been made aware that emails are circulating that pretend to come from the Red Hat Security Team.
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Scammers are sending out virus-laden e-mails claiming to have information on complaints filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the FTC warned Monday.The e-mail appears to come from frauddep@ftc.gov -- a spoofed address -- and it includes a malicious attachment that downloads keylogging software, which is used to steal sensitive information such as passwords and account numbers.&quot;While the e-mail includes the FTC seal, it has grammatical errors, misspellings, and incorrect syntax,&quot; the FTC said in an alert , released Monday. &quot;Recipients should forward the e-mail to spam@uce.gov and then delete it.&quot; E-mail sent to this uce.gov address goes into the FTC&#39;s spam database, which is used by investigators.Online scammers often masquerade as government agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service in the hopes of tricking unsuspecting victims into clicking on attachments or visiting malicious Web sites.
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Conservative government is backing a proposal allowing authorities to transmit Trojans to suspects through official-looking e-mails. Opposition parties and privacy advocates cry foul.
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Yet more URL manipulation mischief 02 has plugged a security hole that allowed customers to view text messages sent by other UK subscribers online.â¦