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FIFA World Cup 2010 Lottery Scam Mail

The online scammers have attempted a new trick shot. They are trying to boost their chances of a scam by

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Phishing email of Bank of India in Hindi.

Today I got 4 Bank of India phishing emails. As I had written a blog earlier the phishing attack on

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  Sanjay Katkar / 16 years
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Windows XP users do not press F1 if prompted by a website

As Abhijit Kulkarni yesterday blogged about the .HLP vulnerability in Windows XP. See details below in his blog. I observed

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  Sanjay Katkar / 16 years
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Paypal phishing attack

I came across multiple emails in my inbox which were talking about my Paypal account being blocked. The mails had

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  Sanjay Katkar / 16 years
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Internet Explorer .HLP vulnerability on Windows XP

Microsoft’s security team is investigating a security vulnerability reported at https://isec.pl/ by Maurycy Prodeus. The vulnerability is observed on operating

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Spanish police arrested 3 hackers as suspected masterminds of Mariposa botnet.

Mariposa botnet which has grown much stronger over last six months was posing a big challenge for security software developers.

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Rogueware “Security essentials 2010”

Microsoft has warned Windows users to be cautious against a rogueware (fake software) which calls itself Security Essentials 2010 as

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  Yashowardhan Rai / 16 years
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) attacks are increasing rapidly

One has to be very careful when using search engine for looking for information or news on the latest hot

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  Sanjay Katkar / 16 years
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Operation B49

Since couple of weeks back Microsoft has been working on secret Operation B49 to wipe out Waledac botnet. Waledac is

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  Sanjay Katkar / 16 years
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Security threat on smartphones and tablets

Computer scientists at Rutgers University have demonstrated that rootkits (a familiar threat on PCs) can now attack your smartphones or

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  Yashowardhan Rai / 16 years
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