Last week a phishing scheme hit Twitter – the first large scale hit on Twitter. People were receiving emails to go and check out a story. The emails took them to a ‘Twitter login page’, and their usernames and passwords were being captured. Fortunately, Twitter acted quickly to resolve the problem, and the damage [...]
Phishing on Social Sites gets Worse
January 6th, 2009Cisco Releases Spam, Internet Vulnerability Report
December 19th, 2008A new security report from Cisco found there was a 90 percent growth in threats coming from legitimate domains in 2008; nearly double what visible 2007. Continually making their emails more personalized in attempts to steal users information, spammers are once again on the rise. Messages are looking more credible, and spammer are learning to [...]