An interesting article from The Register, on the upcoming FIFA World Cup, and how we can expect a whole variety of scams themed on the event.
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Fraudsters as well as footballers are gearing up for this month’s World Cup extravaganza in South Africa.
Football governing body FIFA has already warned [1] supporters to be wary over various forms of scams that are likely to crop up in the run-up to the start of the tournament, which kicks off in ten days.
Read More...**excerpt from Globe & Mail Article. Original can be found here.
Marco Bonanni of Optrics Engineering, a diamond partner of Barracuda Networks, which specializes in e-mail and web security, said workers should be aware everything they’re doing is marked and logged — even things they might think are innocent.
“The equipment that most organizations install nowadays have months and months of logged data and information about every single message that goes in and out of the company, or every single URL or website that’s been visited” he said from Edmonton.
Read More...– Phishers Used Facebook to Penetrate Financial Firm’s Computer System (March 4, 2010)
Phishers used Facebook to burrow their way into the network of a large US financial company last year.
The attackers took control of one employee’s Facebook account and using information culled from that individual’s friends’ profiles, sent what appeared to be personal messages to several other company employees about pictures taken at a company picnic.
The phishers learned of the picnic through postings on the hijacked account. When one of the other employees received a message asking her to click on a link that would allow her to view the pictures, her computer became infected with keystroke logging malware.
Read More...(An interesting article by Joel Esler, published on the Internet Storm Center):
Everyday we receive about 20 reports of “www.xwebsitehere.com” being slow. Today we’ve received a few reports about Google being slow. One reader (thanks Neal) even wrote in to say that after he did some monitoring on his connections, he isolated it down to “pagead2.googlesyndication.com”. Obviously, from the hostname being one of the servers that serves ads to lots of websites.
Neal stated that after he blacklisted this hostname, his browsing went back to normal. Anyone else experiencing similar?
Barracuda Web Filter firmware release 4.0 is now generally available to all customers. This major release includes powerful new features and enhancements, including:
To view detailed firmware release notes, click here.
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