12 Apr 2011 |
As I recently have sent off my tax forms in preparation for the US Federal tax deadline on April 18 this year, a recent phishing scam piqued my interest. This attack is taking advantage of the new tax year beginning for folks in the UK on April 6, 2011.
18 Mar 2011 |
The earthquake and aftershocks which have struck New Zealand in the last few months are still being exploited by spammers and phishers in an attempt to feed upon the fears of Internet users. Symantec has recently observed continued phishing attacks against these users.
23 Mar 2010 |
One can be both impressed and amused at how far image spammers will go in distorting their image payloads in an attempt to slip through spam filtering technologies. If the spammer somehow manages to slip spam through spam filters from time to time, it allows email users to see how badly mangled the images must become. The images are, for all practical purposes, illegible.