The wave of pornographic and violent images that flooded Facebook over the past few days has drawn attention to a side of the social networking mega-site most of its users don't think about:
If your computer is infected, it's probably because of something you did, according to a Microsoft study released this week.
The targeted phishing scheme that struck hundreds of top U.S. government officials' personal Gmail accounts was neither difficult to perform nor incredibly sophisticated.
Hundreds of personal Gmail accounts, including those of some senior U.S. government officials, were hacked as a result of a massive phishing scheme originating from China, Google said Wednesday.
updated: Thu Jun 02 2011 11:45:00
CNN's John Vause speaks with Andrew Lih about cyber attacks on Google Gmail accounts.
Last week the news broke that the world's largest permissions-based e-mail marketing company, Epsilon, had been hacked -- compromising the security of an unknown number of e-mail addresses and names. Major companies with millions of customers, such as JP Morgan Chase and Target, sent e-mail notices alerting customers of the breach.
It seems like every day for the past week, another dozen major companies have come out and said that they too have been affected by the massive data breach at e-mail marketing firm Epsilon.
The world's largest "permissions-based" e-mail marketing company, Epsilon, reported late last week that someone hacked into its computer system and stole an unknown number of e-mail addresses and names.
Spamming e-mail is so last year.
Unsolicited and unwanted e-mail was flooding our in- boxes in 2003. Congress reacted by enacting the CAN-SPAM law. That took care of the problem, right? Wrong. Today, spam remains a scourge.
A stolen bag. Lost cash. A missing passport.
We all know about spam -- clogging up our inboxes with ads for Viagra and too-good-to-be-true offers from renegade African diplomats.
If you're on Twitter, it may be a good idea to change your password today.
Twitter this week endured a number of "phishing" attacks, in which some users unwittingly gave out their passwords to malicious sites. Haven't we all learned to keep our passwords to ourselves, you ask? Perhaps. But the truth is we're all vulnerable to social engineering, and two major Web trends are creating further confusion for new Internet users.
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It was a good year for cyber crime - that's bad news for e-commerce. CNN.com's Kevin Voigt explains.
The past 12 months have been a banner year for cyber crime. And that could be bad news for the future of e-commerce.
If you're on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking site, you could be the next victim.
A California judge awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against spammer Sanford Wallace for bombarding the Web site with junk messages.
If you're on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking site, you could be the next victim.
I got my first SMS spam message last week and it infuriated me.
updated: Wed Jun 24 2009 05:17:00
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout talks to Kevin Voigt, CNN.com business editor, about the power of words in cyberspace
Cyber criminals are setting snares that move at the speed of news.
Cyber criminals are setting snares that move at the speed of news.
Facebook stopped a phishing attack on Thursday, its second day in a row of dealing with a worm on the site that lures people to a fake Facebook page and prompts them to log in.
Remember how hard an honest mugger had to work for a living wage back during the pre-Internet holiday shopping season?
The Supreme Court has passed up a chance to examine how far states can go to restrict unsolicited e-mails in efforts to block spammers from bombarding computer users.
Poor Hormel and its signature canned, processed, porcine-derived product, SPAM. First came Monty Python mockery and now, the dubious honor of becoming a household name for unsolicited junk email.
As the U.S. presidential elections draw closer, voting activists are bracing themselves for an onslaught of online dirty tricks and misinformation campaigns designed to deceive and disenfranchise voters.
As the U.S. presidential elections draw closer, security experts and voting activists are bracing themselves for an onslaught of online dirty tricks and misinformation campaigns designed to deceive and disenfranchise voters.
Back in the good old days of the Internet, the hacker was a teenager motivated by high-tech pranks and bragging rights. Today, the online thief could be anyone with 'Net access after a quick buck.
Notorious 20th-century bank robber Willie Sutton said famously, "I rob banks because that's where the money is."
FRANK LOBASCIO IS ON THE FRONT LINE OF THE battle for safe computing. The president of American Carriers Moving & Storage of Moorestown, N.J., Lobascio used to spend at least $20,000 a year to protect the systems that generate customer estimates, schedule trucks and drivers, send invoices, and process payroll for his $3-million-a-year company. Still, viruses, spyware, and spam kept creeping onto the network killing hard drives, destroying data, and knocking servers offline. To make matters worse, a handful of staffers were secretly visiting porn and gambling sites on company time. With no room in his budget for a full-time IT person, Lobascio tried to make do by calling in a part-time consultant. "You name the antispyware and antivirus package, and I bought it," he says.
Internet veterans have long complained about the steady erosion of civility -- and worse, intelligence -- in online discourse. Initially the phenomenon seemed to be a seasonal disorder. It occurred every September when freshmen showed up for college and went online. Tasting for the first time the freedom and power of the Internet, the newbies would behave like a bunch of drunken fraternity pledges, filling electronic bulletin boards with puerile remarks until the upperclassmen could whip them into shape.
updated: Wed Nov 07 2007 12:17:00
Computer expert Ken Colburn explains how you can text Google from your cellphone and get helpful information.
People should be on the lookout for a new e-mail scam soliciting donations to California wildfire victims in the name of the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. government
Internet pirates have begun to turn away from traditional attack modes such as viruses and worms and are increasingly using targeted emails and other techniques to swipe critical personal information, according to an Internet security report released Monday.
It arrived on a Tuesday morning. I flipped open my buzzing Motorola cell phone and found a text message from someone called Casey@fullrate.dk. "Hush hush wink wink," it began, "Castleguard Energy (...
FRANK LOBASCIO IS ON THE FRONT LINE OF THE battle for safe computing. The president of American Carriers Moving & Storage of Moorestown, N.J., Lobascio used to spend at least $20,000 a year to prot...
If you get an e-mail announcing the cost-of-living increases scheduled for 2007 Social Security benefits and purporting to be from the Social Security Administration, don't answer it and don't click on any links in the e-mail.
AOL is digging for gold in an effort to recover millions owed by a man it sued for sending out spam, searching for gold and platinum bars he is believed to have buried.
The Internal Revenue Service warned American taxpayers Friday to be on the lookout for a so-called "phishing" scam in which criminals send e-mails promising tax refunds.
Open-source is a great idea for users--they typically get a decent product for free. But it's a far trickier proposition for companies trying to make a buck from an open-source application.
Have you won the lottery lately? Not the one you bought a ticket in for last Saturday night's big draw, but the international one from Amsterdam or Spain?
Jason Michael Carpenter, a convicted identity thief who is serving 17-and-a-half years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and fraud in connection with access devices, says stealing identities was fun and "incredibly easy."
As long-distance revenues plummet and customers disconnect phone lines in favor of cell phones and VOIP, DSL has provided burgeoning broadband revenues for local phone companies. But could DSL be slowing down? Business 2.0 senior writer Om Malik notes that, according to research by investment bank UBS, fewer households are signing up for DSL as a percentage of homes where the service is available. That has AT&T, for one, scrambling to provide other options, including satellite broadband, high-speed fixed wireless connections, and fiber-optic lines. The new initiatives could help AT&T serve another 11.5 million households, the company estimates.
It's just the news that hardworking taxpayers want to see in their inbox: an update on their refund from the Internal Revenue Service.
Open-source is a great idea for users--they typically get a decent product for free. But it's a far trickier proposition for companies trying to make a buck from an open-source application. That di...
The Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers about a so-called "phishing" scam in which criminals are attempting to steal money by sending fraudulent e-mails purporting to be from the IRS.
Cybercrime is on the rise -- and today's attacks are often silent, hard to detect and highly targeted, according to a new survey.
A recent survey estimated that almost two million Internet users in the U.S. inadvertently gave personal information to cyberscammers last year. Increasingly the weapon of choice is a "phishing" ex...
Tuesday is expected to be a very busy day for online shoppers and for cyber thieves, according to a published report.
A British Internet-security firm is warning people to not get hooked by an e-mail scam promising tax refunds from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Internet criminals want your computer, your money and your identity. And their tactics are becoming increasingly refined and organized, according to security experts.
Internet criminals want your computer, your money and your identity. And their tactics are becoming increasingly refined and organized, according to security experts.
Phishing? Cracking? Firewall? If these terms are just so much nerdy gobbledygook to you, better wise up -- because they're describing something that could happen to you.
We're all subject to life's little frustrations. Take, for example, those annoying subscription cards that fall out of magazines. It's enough to drive you batty.
An unwelcome dose of reality hit the booming online marketing industry this week. Online security fears are beginning to lower confidence in online commerce.
YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW SCOTT Richter, but there's a good chance you've gotten e-mail from him. Once ranked the world's third-largest spammer, he is estimated to have sent 250 million unsolicited e...
IBM unveiled a service Tuesday that sends unwanted e-mails back to the spammers who sent them.
Bank robbery has come a long way since the days of Bonnie and Clyde.
Don't open those e-mail attachments that appear to be from the FBI. They might contain a computer virus.
Computer users are often bombarded with annoying pop-up advertisements. Separately, they also are often bombarded with annoying "spam"-- unsolicited commercial e-mail. Can the pop-up ads be thought of, legally, as a form of spam?
The Indian Ocean tsunami disaster has prompted unprecedented use of the Internet.
You may be wise to phishing scams, but that's only encouraging scamsters to create a better class of lure. Phishing is a way of wheedling personal information out of you via e-mail so that the send...
This holiday season, there's one gift you don't want to give -- your identity. But there are a slew of con artists trying to get just that.
Phishing scams are casting a wide net over consumers lately, especially people with Citibank accounts. Phishing (cyber-slang for fake e-mail messages that ask recipients for personal info such as p...
Phishing scams are casting a wide net over consumers lately, especially people with Citibank accounts.
Federal agents armed with search warrants conducted raids in three states Wednesday as part of a nationwide crackdown on the theft of copyrighted materials through the Internet, the Justice Department announced.
Dozens of arrests of people charged with crimes related to junk e-mail, identity theft and other online scams will be announced Thursday, according to a published report.
Phishing is a particularly pernicious type of Internet identity theft scam. So far, little has been done to stop it. But that will change if a promising new anti-phishing bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy becomes law.
Someday soon, if it hasn't happened already, you'll open an e-mail from eBay (or Citibank or Visa or another merchant or financial institution) informing you that your account has a problem. It will ask you to visit the company's Web site to straighten it out.
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it won't endorse a national 'do-not-e-mail' registry, saying current plans are so flawed they might actually boost the amount of junk e-mail.
One lucky AOL subscriber in the United States has actually profited from spam.
One lucky AOL subscriber actually profited from spam.
AOL is giving its subscribers a chance to profit from spam.
Wall Street can't seem to get enough of the taste of spam...the e-mail kind.
Technology stocks slid further away from the key 2,000 level Wednesday as investors shunned equities after monthly data showing a record trade deficit cast doubt on the soundness of the economic recovery.
So, are you getting less spam now or more than you got in December?
E-mail users are being warned about a new identity theft scam that tries to snare victims by accusing them of violating the government's anti-terrorism Patriot Act.
The swift spread of an e-mail worm that surfaced over the weekend appears to have reached its peak and may be subsiding, computer security experts said Tuesday.
Lower mortgage rates, improve your sex life, cell phones at no cost, free DVD player, zero balance, larger breasts or cheap cigarettes ...
E-mail users on both sides of the Atlantic hoping for a legislative reprieve from spam are feeling let down.
Jim Haney hopes to protect his company from the next big Internet virus attack, but he's not sure he can. "We've been lucky so far," says Whirlpool's chief security officer, "but our time is probab...
Where are the schlocky movie producers when we need them? If this were 1956 or 1968, we would have already had at least one hastily made, campy horror flick with a title like Spam! or It Came From ...
In a darkened room on the 18th floor of a downtown San Francisco high-rise, Wilson Cheng scans his e-mail. "Cheapest Viagra Guaranteed." "Affordable Mortgages NOW!!!" "Toilet Cams JUQYZJIV." He get...
The numbers are stunning: According to statistics compiled by Symantec's security-check website, 31% of users were susceptible to virus attacks and 56% were vulnerable to exposing private data onli...
Spam, the unsolicited e-mail pitches that clog your mailbox, is an annoyance that's only getting worse. I have four separate e-mail addresses (at AOL, Earthlink and Yahoo), and on average I get at ...
You know the symptoms of this electronic-age database-driven plague: a mailbox bursting with junk mail, incessant phone solicitations, surprises on your phone bill and computer-crashing e-mails, al...
"On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. B...
Whatever you think of a Spam sandwich, there's a new kind of Spam clogging the Internet that online users are finding hard to stomach. We're talking about electronic junk mail from advertisers, ter...
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