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People using social networking sites are at risk of becoming victims of identity theft, warned a credit information provider. The personal information - including Social Security numbers - of 71,000 Indiana state health care workers were accessed by a hacker in January. Amnesty International is calling for Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft to stop allowing the Chinese government to censor the Internet for its citizens. Security experts have developed a hybrid file type that looks like an image but can also run a Java applet surreptitiously in a browser.
With the opening ceremony only four days away, online fraudsters are using the hype of the Beijing Olympics to trick consumers out of thousands of dollars. People just don’t think that putting family genealogy, exposes them and their families to spying by ID fraudsters and for that matter anyone else (stalkers, paedophiles, employers, parents). A new wave of spam messages related to Angelina Jolie are spreading with the intention to trick users into downloading and installing malware. Spam significantly increased in the second quarter of 2008, security vendor Sophos reported today. 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.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is speaking out about a recent round of attacks perpetrated against its sites. Malware writers are looking to cash in on the upcoming Fourth of July weekend, security experts have warned. Microsoft is planning two new security features for the upcoming beta version of Internet Explorer 8.. Stronger international cooperation to fight cybercrime moved a step forward on Wednesday with the signing of the Seoul Declaration at the OECD Ministerial meeting in Korea, but will Australia benefit? Phishing attacks that target high-value assets are increasing, according to researchers at Verisign's iDefense Labs. During the past year, waves of attacks have risen from three or four a month to as many as 10 per month. Social networks such as LinkedIn are being exploited by online fraudsters, experts warned today.. A software security researcher has exploited a flaw in the sex offender registry webpage operated by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. The cybercrime market is poised to be even ‘hotter’ in 2008 as spammers increase targeted attacks and create new social engineering techniques to claim their stake in cybercrime’s US$105 billion market. Microsoft's has discovered some interesting new trends in cybercrime. The firm's Research Unit, which has just released its six-monthly Security Intelligence Report, found that the number of attacks designed to steal personal information had risen, as had cases of theft through social engineering. The Storm worm has temporarily abandoned its tactic of using recent news happenings in its spam and is instead fabricating current events. Security organisations are warning of a new virus attack that uses the upcoming Chinese Olympics to spread a new variant of the Storm malware..