– It’s the shocking mystery hidden for a millennium: What will Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown’s next book be about? But, beware, truth seekers: Chasing the latest clues to the upcoming novel The Lost Symbol could expose you to a vast and secret conspiracy that’s been manipulating Google search results to push malicious software (fake anti-virus).
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– The phishing attempt would start with a convincingly realistic message in the victim’s news feed, saying that a friend had posted something on his or her wall or had commented on a photo. To read the message, the victim would have to click on a link. The link would lead to a page that looked exactly like the Facebook login page, with the only difference being that this page was not served from facebook.com. By logging in on this page, victims would hand their username and password to the hackers.
eBay cell phone scam leads to a year in prison for state man – Yochanan Levitansky of New Haven was also ordered to pay eBay for the more than $237,000 the company reimbursed to customers who were scammed. He was sentenced Wednesday in New Haven federal court.
– A group of do-gooding SEOs are collaborating to make the online world a better place. They are attempting to influence Google’s search rankings for the keyword ‘Google Cash’, to alert the public of the scam behind this enticing title that has already fooled so many.
– The security firm’s State of Phishing report for September revealed that financial and online shopping sites topped the list of organisations most targeted by phishing scams, accounting for 29.3 percent of all phishing attacks.
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Scams in the News (8/10/2009)