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Justice Canada employees fall for fake email scam Ottawa - After mock emails were sent to employees at the Department of Justice, it was determined more than one third of them clicked onto phony links in the email leading to concerns about the security of the department's sensitive information. In the Media by Arthur Weinreb - 5 comments

Op-Ed: Are online ads safe? Senate committee grills Yahoo, Google Washington - The risk of malware contained in online ads (malvertising) affects everyone, including Google and Yahoo. Consumer online safety is now an official issue. A Senate sub-committee took the two Internet giants to task, and got some interesting answers. In the Media by Paul Wallis - 1 comment

How safe is your Internet cafe? Special London - Do you ever use Internet cafés? If you do, then you may be risking your data and a lot more if one man's experience is anything to go by. Digital Journal Report by Alexander Baron

Op-Ed: Should Phishing be a capital offence? If you think that title sounds frivolous, think again. Unlike many crimes including at times murder, phishing has arguably no mitigation. In the Media by Alexander Baron

The latest UK phishing scam The first recorded crime happened when Eve was tempted by the Serpent to eat fruit from the tree of knowledge. The Serpent is still there, but you don't have to listen to him. In the Media by Alexander Baron - 3 comments

Watch out for these malware scams Special What should you not do if you receive a suspicious e-mail? Do NOT click a link, any link. Ignore that advice at your own cost. I did. Digital Journal Report by Alexander Baron - 3 comments

Op-Ed: Beating Spam? Try beating an apathetic Internet culture first Sydney - Global spam is now sending 94 billion messages per day that nobody wants or needs. It's truly ridiculous. It’s also absurd, when you consider possible fixes. Spam is actually a dangerous form of assault on people, businesses and everything in general. In the Media by Paul Wallis - 4 comments

FBI Counterintelligence releases Social Networking Risks Report New FBI report details high risk methods of social networking deception used by so called hackers to gain personal information for the purpose of defrauding the unsuspecting user. In the Media by Christopher Wager - 4 comments

Email scam: Fake Verizon bills duping customers The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning of a new phishing scam that is finding its way into the email inboxes of many people. In the Media by Leigh Goessl - 4 comments

Sending a message to the Phishers If you receive a suspicious e-mail apparently from a bona fide company, why not trace it and then send the phishers a message? In the Media by Alexander Baron - 2 comments

Internet giants form DMARC to battle email spam, phishing attacks Washington - Web giants Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Yahoo have formed the technical working group, Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC). This new coalition will fight against email spam and phishing attacks. In the Media by Andrew Moran - 2 comments

Op-Ed: Avoiding the phishers, by email and phone Internet fraud is booming, and the scam artists are becoming more and more sophisticated. Fortunately, so are we, as are the tools at our command to catch them out. In the Media by Alexander Baron - 4 comments

New Netflix phishing scams spreading through email and mobile Over the past several years phishing scams have grown more prevalent as they continue to cleverly impersonate reputable companies as a means to gain trust and steal personal information. In the Media by Leigh Goessl - 6 comments

Inside phishing fraud masquerading as PayPal Special This morning as I took my morning coffee, I found an email from PayPal asking me to revise my account. Because I receive fees from PayPal I went to the site but something did not smell right. Digital Journal Report by Richard Mccallum - 10 comments

12 Scams of Christmas The holiday season has officially begun. We are now experiencing Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Black Friday. Here are 12 commons scams to watch out for. In the Media by Michael Bearak - 3 comments

Google confirms Gmail hit by phishing scam Following the news that 10,000 Hotmail passwords had been posted online comes confirmation from Google that its free email service Gmail has also been hit by an "industry-wide phishing scheme." In the Media by Chris Dade

Thousands of Hotmail Account Details and Passwords Posted Online The details of thousands of Windows Live Hotmail accounts and their users' passwords have been posted online after being obtained by hackers who created a fake website which visitors believed was genuine and therefore provided with personal details. In the Media by Chris Dade - 3 comments

Inside GhostNet, the China Based Phishing Operation A Canadian group has uncovered what appears to be one of the largest and most invasive phishing operations ever detected. In the Media by Gar Swaffar - 12 comments

Twitter A-Twitter About Phishing Scam Problem, Consumer Alert Everybody these days is "into" twitter, from CNN newsrooms to the local writer in town. Students, teachers and everyday folk use it to send short messages. But there is trouble brewing at Twitter that is the talk of Twitterdom. In the Media by Carol Forsloff

Gmail to block phishing emails from PayPal Google has teamed up with PayPal and Ebay to filter out fraudulent mails coming to any Gmail account by authenticating mails using a digital signature. In the Media by Kesavan Unnikrishnan - 5 comments

Paypal to block 'unsafe browsers' from Phishing Attacks PayPal announced today that it will block “unsafe browsers” from using its service to protect its users from phishing attacks by third parties. In the Media by Chris V. Thangham - 4 comments

Report: Internet Will Become World War III’s New Battlefield Online attacks will be on the rise as more governments strategize how to use cyberspace as the next battlefield. A startling new report finds that national security could be threatened by attacks that hit the heart of the Web. In the Media by David Silverberg - 14 comments

Monster Attack Steals Private Data from Online Job Site A malicious attack stole personal information from hundreds of thousands of users on one of the biggest online job sites, a security firm discovered. Monster.com suffered a serious breach of data that exposed members to file ransom, a new phishing scam. In the Media by David Silverberg - 3 comments

Italy arrests 26 for phishing operation Countries around the world are clamping down on phishing as the number of Web sites used to entrap victims continues to increase. Italy has become the latest country to clamp down on phishing, with authorities there arresting 26 people for an alleged scam In the Media by RussCam

Protect yourself against phishing An important article about protecting against phishing In the Media by szemi

Do-it-Yourself Phishing Kit Poses Danger to Web Consumers A software kit has been discovered on the Internet that makes it easily for the average person to create huge phishing attacks on a large numbers of websites, putting consumers at great risk. In the Media by Sarawanan Ravindran - 7 comments

Internet Criminals Recruit Students as Sleepers and Launch New Scams A new report shows that organized gangs are going after students to recruit them into the workforce of Internet criminals. University undergrads are being offered cash incentives to become sleepers within large corporations. In the Media by Chris Hogg - 6 comments

Firefox 2 tops IE 7 in anti-phishing Mozilla is claiming to be more effective in anti-phishing than IE. In the Media by Saint - 1 comment

Phishing Attack Targets MySpace Users No one is safe.... In the Media by KeithLDick - 1 comment

MySpace Phishing Scam Goes After Music Lovers When you're big, you're a target. The latest is a phishing scam that sends out emails to convince people to click on a link that takes them to a bogus website that look like an online music store. The emails look like MySpace contact emails. In the Media by Allan - 2 comments

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