To understand the world of credit card fraud, you must first learn an entirely new language. Words like "skimming," "shoulder surfing" and "phishing" may sound less criminal than "stealing," but they are, in fact, ways in which money can be stolen off your credit card.
And though there are no definitive global figures on losses from credit card fraud - most financial institutions are tight-lipped on the subject - an FBI report from 2005 indicated that credit cards represented the majority of the total $315 billion U.S. financial fraud loss for that year, while a recent European study found that more than 22 million adults fell victim to credit card scams in 2006. Figures from the Banque de France, the country's central bank, showed a credit card fraud loss of €236 million, or $319 million, for 2005. More ... By Jennifer Conlin - The International Herald Tribune
One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC. Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to "in-depth analysis". A further 700,000 pages were thought to contain code that could compromise a user's computer, the team report. To address the problem, the researchers say the company has "started an effort to identify all web pages on the internet that could be malicious". More ...
The amount of spam clogging up email servers has exploded, according to the findings in a new survey. The study of 400 SME's found that in January 2006 only 64 per cent of emails sent to companies were identified as spam. This figure shot up to 85 per cent in last December with the trend set to continue upwards. More ...
Spam volumes soared by 44.29 per cent during the first three months of 2007, according to new figures.Research from security firm SonicWALL suggest that directory harvest attacks comprised the majority of spam email attacks during the first quarter of the year, with levels of good email up from the previous quarter. More ...
Security researchers are warning users to beware of a new spam campaign that is offering up an online prostitute finder. The spammed e-mails don't seem to carry any malware and the Web site that the messages link to don't have any embedded malicious code. However, Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, warns that following the link in this kind of e-mail is just setting up users for major trouble in the future. More ...
" Contactify is designed to make posting your email address on the internet a little less spam friendly by turning your address into a URL. To get your own Contactify URL you simply enter your email address and password, then magically the service turns it into a short URL you can post on your blog or on a message board without fear of winning the Nigerian lottery 10,000 times.Potential contacts are not even given your email address when they click on your Contactify link. Instead, they are taken to a contact form on the site where they can send you a message, and you can keep your email address private. Thanks to EmilyChang for the note.
About 75% of all mails on the Internet are spam. About 2% of spams are malware, says Patrik Runald, senior security specialist, F-Secure Security Labs. Now, spam has become an even bigger challenge due to increased volume of image spam. These emails circumvent traditional filters, which look only for text. Image spams also take up to 70% of the bandwidth because of the large file sizes. Image spams that constituted about 35% to 40% of all spam mails in January and February of this year have reduced to about 20% to 30% in March and April. More ..
Mobile advertising is widely regarded as the last great unexploited frontier in digital advertising. Growth projections for mobile advertising in the coming years vary widely, but it's clear that marketers and carriers are chafing at the bit to expose the world's 2.2 billion cell phone subscribers to a torrent of advertising messages, and in December of 2006, cell phone giant Verizon began to test such ads on the decks of its subscribers phones. More ...
By Christopher Breen, MacWorld, - Anyone who has launched an e-mail client to discover a glut of offers for dubious nostrums, bogus diplomas, and indelicate physical congress is well aware that spam - the junk mail that fills our inboxes in ever increasing amounts - is a huge problem. More ...
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To understand the world of credit card fraud, you must first learn an entirely new language. Words like "skimming," "shoulder surfing" and "phishing" may sound less criminal than "stealing," but they are, in fact, ways in which money can be stolen off your credit card.
One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC. Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to "in-depth analysis".
Spam volumes soared by 44.29 per cent during the first three months of 2007, according to new figures.Research from security firm SonicWALL suggest that directory harvest attacks comprised the majority of spam email attacks during the first quarter of the year, with levels of good email up from the previous quarter. 
Security researchers are warning users to beware of a new spam campaign that is offering up an online prostitute finder.
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Mobile advertising is widely regarded as the last great unexploited frontier in digital advertising. Growth projections for mobile advertising in the coming years vary widely, but it's clear that marketers and carriers are chafing at the bit to expose the world's 2.2 billion cell phone subscribers to a torrent of advertising messages, and in December of 2006, cell phone giant Verizon began to test such ads on the decks of its subscribers phones.