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The Eyjafjallajokull Volcano is Shooting Out Ash and Spam E-mails!!
Iceland’s erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano is causing chaos as it has already forced a number of flights across northern Europe to be canceled. The volcano has been shooting smoke and hot steam into the air as well as melting ice causing dangerous floods in surrounding areas. Not to our surprise, as with all great disasters or [...]
The dangerous Zbot aka Zeus Trojan is spreading fast and research has shown that it’s main form of transportation is e-mail, more specifically, spam e-mail. Cyber criminals are using different types of spam campaigns along with social engineering techniques to get users to open infected e-mails and execute malicious attachments. Currently in circulation, is a [...]
Numerous spam e-mails are being sent to unsuspecting users informing them that their accounts have been temporarily suspended. According to the e-mails, the reason for the temporary suspension is because it is believed that the users’ accounts have been accessed by an unauthorized party. On opening one of these e-mails, an unsuspecting user will be [...]
Users are Cautioned About the ‘Free iPad’ Spam Scams
April 3, 2010 was the day that Apple Inc. finally released iPad. This new tablet computer has been categorized as something between the smartphone and the laptop computer so it is no surprise that it is attracting the attention of many curious users. Recently the Google Mobile app for iPad was changed from the upsized [...]
According to security software company Trend Micro, a malicious spam e-mail claiming to be from the Bureau of the Shanghai World Expo is out in the wild and targeting users that are interested or participating in the Expo. The said spam e-mail contains an attachment named englishversinon.pdf. It was later found that the attached PDF [...]
According to the security firm TrendLabs, a fake e-mail, purportedly from a friend, has been circulating the web in the form of an invite to the social-networking site hi5. Being the third largest social media site in the world, it is no surprise that hi5 – “a global destination where young people meet and play”- [...]
