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iiNet, Australia’s third largest ISP, is warning users to be aware of a hoax email purporting to be from the internet provider’s support department and requesting the disclosure of passwords. Despite a nationwide decline, identity theft is still a major concern of consumers because criminals have become more creative in how they steal personal information, according to a report released Monday by Javelin Strategy and Research. The latest fake Microsoft Update page laced with malware comes with a sinister twist: a portion of its URL contains the URL for the software giant's actual update site, with a period substituted for a forward slash. Malicious banner ads have been uncovered on travel site Expedia and music service Rhapsody. Most men believe that they know more about online security than women, but new research suggests that both sexes are equally vulnerable to malware and other threats.. Hackers have launched a website which allows users to construct phishing pages for social networking and webmail sites.. A number of Hewlett-Packard notebook models are vulnerable to an ActiveX attack that could permit a hacker to execute malicious code. The scheduled sentencing Friday for a Connecticut substitute teacher convicted of exposing her middle-school students to pop-up internet pornography has been postponed so the 40-year-old's new defense team can learn about the case. NatWest has topped the list of most popular company names used by fraudsters when targeting the personal finance industry.
The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) interface is highly vulnerable to use by hackers seeking to modify home router settings -- such as choice of DNS server -- from an external location, researchers warned. The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) interface in Adobe Flash is highly vulnerable to use by hackers seeking to modify home router settings – such as choice of DNS server – from an external location, researchers warned today. The FBI is warning of a dramatic increase in the number of so-called 'vishing' attacks that entice mobile phone users into giving up personal banking details.. A mobile phone worm propagating through the phone numbers of users' address books is spreading in the wild across popular SymbianOS smartphone devices, security vendor Fortinet has warned. An aggressive, non-stop campaign by China to penetrate key government and industry databases in the United States already has succeeded and the United States urgently needs to monitor all internet traffic to critical government and private-sector networks “to find the enemy within,” SANS Institute Director of Research Alan Paller told SCMagazineUS.com. The Cold War may be over, but the global battle over information security is heating up, as U.S. intelligence experts struggle to fend off relentless cyber attacks emanating from China and Russia on critical databases. Researchers at Marshal, an internet security firm, are tracking a new spam campaign in which recipients receive messages inviting them to join MySpace – but a click on the link leads them to a bogus page containing malware disguised as an Adobe update. Microsoft this week warned Windows and Mac users that cyberattackers are remotely exploiting a flaw in Excel to take over computers. Google has halted the spread of a worm on its social networking website, Orkut, but not before the self-replicating script reportedly spread to more than 400,000 member profiles. An intricate network of servers operated by Chinese criminals has moved into the void created when the notorious Russian Business Network (RBN) shut down, according to a report from anti-crimeware vendor Finjan. Security experts have warned consumers to be aware of the growing threat of ID theft as the online holiday shopping season reaches full swing..