Online scammers exploit California wildfire disaster
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No smoke without liars The California wildfire disaster, like so many other tragedies involving loss of life, has become the subject of an online scam. If the history of incidents like the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and Hurricane Katrina is anything to go by, fire-themed malware is likely to follow.â¦
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SAN JOSE - By day, Alexander Vincent is a mild-mannered secretary for a Vallejo, Calif., real estate broker. By night, he&#39;s an online crusader protecting users of a new Internet browser from glitches and security bugs.
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By day, Alexander Vincent is a mild-mannered secretary for a Vallejo real estate broker. By night, he&#39;s an online crusader protecting users of a new Internet browser from glitches and security bugs.
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Spam exploiting the deadly airplane crash in Sao Paulo lures readers to a malicious Web site.
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Blog: IM directs victims to malicious Web site where they are duped into typing in their password, it then sends itself to the victims' contacts.
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AOL Instant Messenger message directs victims to Web sites that host the dangerous images.
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New round of 'family member' greeting-card spam tricks recipients into visiting malicious Web sites.
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Some Web sites are now offering surfers the chance to download free &quot;phishing kits&quot; containing all the graphics, Web code and text required to construct the kind of bogus Web sites used in Internet phishing scams.
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Watch out, watch out there's a scammer about...
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Pay up or you'll never see your data again Pond-dwelling scammers have developed a new cyber-extortion ruse.â¦
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Online tricksters looking to dupe consumers out of credit card numbers and other personal information have netted about $500 million from their hapless victims in the US, a national study released Wednesday showed.
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A note sent through AOL's popular instant-messaging software directs victims to Web sites that host the dangerous graphics.
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Victims in Australia, Germany, and the U.S. are being targeted by a phishing scam that reveals their location using Google Maps.
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The Anti-Phishing Working Group, in its most recent report, said that online scam artists are turning to new tactics to try to trick Web surfers into divulging financial information.
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The conflagration that is Southern California is overwhelming wireless phone networks, and residents are turning to text messaging, blogs, and Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, Flickr, and Twitter to keep each other abreast of the latest developments.
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By Laura Hancock Deseret Morning News  EAGLE MOUNTAIN -- A Web site formerly used by Pony Express Elementary's PTA became entangled in a phishing scam.  Sometime recently, hackers got access to software that parent Gerald Banks used for www.ponyexpresselementary.org.
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A new online method for trying to resolve travelers' problems boarding planes looks like a typical phishing attack. In 27B Stroke 6.