Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
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| The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams
| in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
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| The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very concerned"
| about the growth in "phishing".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm
On brute-force junk mail:
'9 out of 10 e-mails now spam'
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| Criminal gangs using hijacked computers are behind a surge in unwanted
| e-mails peddling sex, drugs and stock tips.
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| The number of "spam" messages has tripled since June and now accounts for
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| as many as nine out of 10 e-mails sent worldwide, according to U.S. email
| security company Postini.
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| [...]
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| "E-mail systems are overloaded or melting down trying to keep up with all
| the spam," said Dan Druker, a vice president at Postini.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/27/uk.spam.reut/index.html?eref=rss_tech
Increased spam levels connected with aggressive botnet activities
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| MessageLabs announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence
| Report for October 2006. In this report, MessageLabs highlights the
| sudden increase in spam levels as spammers gear up to the holiday
| season, attributed to a huge rise in recent botnet activities and the
| latest outbreak of the Warezov virus, responsible for dropping an
| aggressive spam Trojan.
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http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=4359
Deconstructing a 'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Trojan
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=25954&a=194164&po=4,00.asp
99.95% is Microsoft Windows
McAfee Reports on New Generation of Cybercriminals
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| Botnets: As predicted in last years report, botnets -- robot
| networks of illegally linked computers that can be controlled
| remotely -- are now the preferred method for Internet thieves to
| effectively execute attacks. At least 12 million computers around the
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| world are now compromised and are used for phishing schemes, illegal
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| spamming, spreading pornography and stealing passwords and
| identities. Open-source criminal collaboration is also generating
| more robust and reliable botnets with guaranteed ROI.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/General/McAfee_Reports_on_New_Generation_of_Cybercriminals
Earlier this week:
UT Dallas says more affected by Internet attack
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| The University of Texas at Dallas said Wednesday that further analysis
| of a network breach has revealed that all people employed at the
| university between 1999 and 2005 potentially have had sensitive
| information exposed.
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http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2006/12/11/daily31.html
UCLA Probes Computer Security Breach
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| The University of California, Los Angeles alerted about 800,000
| current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that
| their names and certain personal information were exposed after
| a hacker broke into a campus computer system.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/12/AR2006121200173.html
Related news:
Study: Billions of dollars spent on security
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| Large U.S. businesses will spend $61 billion on security by the end
| of this year, representing 7.3 percent of total IT budgets in the
| country, according to a new report from Info-Tech Research Group.
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http://news.com.com/2110-7350_3-6135989.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
US lost $8 billion to computer crime
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| Consumer reports' latest "State of the Net" survey has revealed that
| US punters lost more than $8 billion over the last two years to
| viruses, spyware and con tricks.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33554
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