Phishing

Sophos warns us about Twitter phishing attacks with a demonstration.
Hackers have always tried various methods for getting access to private information like login usernames and passwords for different accounts. Now the battleground has also moved to Twitter. Messages like “This you?”, “I’ve seen you here” and other provocative phrases followed by doubtful links may lead [...]

Net Applications released this year in January Browser Market Share Report. This report shows us that Internet Explorer 8 is both the most popular web browser on Windows (27.9% usage share) and has 25.6% of market share across al OS’s worldwide-weighted usage share basis. This numbers are more impressive, as the browser was launched less [...]

Android Market Place was undergone to the first phishing attempt, by approving a banking app which collected data about customers and their bank accounts. According to sources, all Android owners who installed apps created by developer Droid09, should be removed immediately, to avoid the risk of interception of data and to move on native web [...]

Bogdan Calin of Acutenix analyzed a list of 10,000 email passwords grabbed by Hotmail / Yahoo / Gmail phishing and found out something I really expected. The most common password was ‘123456′, appearing 64 times. Personally, I tried to access my friends’ Yahoo account a few years ago and only typed ‘123456′ and guess what.
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TwitViewer is a website that promises to show you the last 200 visitors of your Twitter profiles and may be a scam. It is technically impossible for a Twitter application to see the visitors on a Twitter profile, so TwitViewer is just lieing.
We currently don’t know if your password is in danger but both we [...]

Lately, there are more and more Facebooks phishing scams and a lot of people lose their accounts. Now another series of URLs are sent and if you login on that URL, then you will lose your account and the scammer will use it to send the message to more people.
There are daily phishing attempts, but [...]