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Spammers are fans of the alphabet according to recent research – you’re going to start wishing your name was Zebedee. Failing to protect corporate data opens the corporate purse with no guarantee that it will ever be closed again. The opening ceremony for the much anticipated Beijing Olympic Games is only hours away and security experts have sent out an eleventh hour warning to internet users – ‘think twice before you click.’ A major job site is the latest phishing attack target. According to a McAfee Avert Labs blog, Monster.com was made to seem the source of phishing emails.
Unknown phishers are using a widely recognised name, AOL, to disguise a false eBay sign-in site, according to the security research team at Fortinet. Spam levels jumped in May to 76.8 per cent of all emails sent globally, according to new monitoring data. Apple's increasing popularity is leading to the company's users being targeted by phishing schemes. The questions of "who" and "why" in identity theft remain largely ignored. That is, "Who is after online identities? And what for?" Consumers, regulators, and businesses have no way to reliably assess the incidences and frequency of identity fraud at major financial institutions, a new study concludes. The "Atheist and Agnostic Group" MySpace page has been reactivated, a month after the page was deleted following a November 2007 hacking incident where unauthorised users renamed it "Jesus is Love." The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is asking a U.S. District Court judge to hold two alleged MySpace phishers in contempt of court after the pair were found to be violating a prior agreement with the agency. The holiday buying season is likely to generate a wave of phishing attacks in January 2008, according to seasonal data collected by security software vendor, SonicWall. Social sites likely to be big targets for cyber criminals The number of phishing URLs used to spread "crimeware" among consumer PCs rose to an all-time high in May, according to a report from an industry association that works to eliminate identity theft and fraud caused by phishing and email spoofing. Phishers are using a new bait to lure in victims - other phishing attacks. Phishers are using Google Maps in a new social engineering attack for committing identity theft. A messaging security firm identified two new attacks this week that use voice over internet protocol (VoIP) to carry out phishing schemes. A new email scam is circulating that tells recipients they could receive millions from a bank account belonging to a victim of the Concorde air disaster, security experts warned. Several members of an international phishing gang have been arrested by German police following a four-month investigation into the criminal syndicate. Internet users have been warned to guard against a newly detected email phishing scam that poses as a survey from Chase Manhattan bank.