Posts tagged crime

Anti-Spam Victories

This year the spam fighting collective with Knujon at the lead, have scored yet more victories. Those of you who got involved by sending Knujon your spam can congratulate yourselves — several key ICANN rules have been passed. Continue reading »

IMHO: Your voice heard

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I sure have. My Apple Mail “Junk” box has now diminished to about 8 to 15 spams per day — down from 150 to 200. NOW is the time to gather your members and join me in a push to let internet users’ voices be heard. Read this important message from Fred… Continue reading »

iPhone vulnerability and cracks

Security researcher Aviv Raff has discovered the iPhone’s Mail and Safari applications are prone to a URL Spoofing vulnerability, which may allow attackers to conduct phishing attacks against iPhone users. iPhone is Phishable and SPAMable Continue reading »

ICANN, Registrars threaten Internet security

Over the past several months we’ve reported on several issues within the ivory towers of Internet domain name management that affects every Internet user. These issues are now boiling to critical mass and you should at least be aware of what’s going on…

SafeNetting

Reader responds on Google

Our “Google caught, denies involvement” from last week about cybercriminals utilizing Google services brought quite a few responses. This one definitely knows the story, and we though should be passed along… Continue reading »

Google caught, denies involvement

For the last week, we’ve been tracking one set of cybercriminals who successfuly elude spam traps and filtering software. It’s NOT a pretty picture, and the hot trail leads straight to Google… Continue reading »

BEWARE: iPhone theft

There’s a good chance your new iPhone will be stolen. iPhone theft has become more popular now than iPod theft. After all, there’s a lot more identity to be stolen on an iPhone than an ipod. Continue reading »

ICANN Stalls

October Phishing Report: ICANN is in the news, directly related to phishing because they have once again stalled on a security measure that would prevent hackers, spammers and phishers from utilizing the Whois for identity theft. After so many years, you begin to believe they’re favoring the cyber criminals. What are they thinking??? Continue reading »

Mac Security Alert

For the past day we’ve had 149 attempts to place links into the ‘comments’ here in UGNN which redirect the user to a download site where a trojan is downloaded. During tracking this criminal, we discovered this security notice published by Intego yesterday… Continue reading »

Pump-n-dump is back

The pumpers & dumpers are back with a different approach — embedding an Acrobat PDF file… here, we’ll show you a picture, and show you how to submit a complaint… Continue reading »