phishing attacks

Brandjacking Index Reveals Highest Growth in Fraudulent Online Activity in Apparel and Luxury Industries

March 15, 2010 -- SAN FRANCISCO -- MarkMonitor today released the company’s latest Brandjacking Index®, which finds that online brand abuse rose across major industries in 2009.

November 12, 2009 – Domain and email services provider Network Solutions® now offers Cloudmark spam and virus protection for all email accounts. Cloudmark Authority® is a software solution that delivers spam, phishing and virus protection. This protection is now available to customers using any of Network Solutions’ email services, including nsMail™ and nsMail Pro.

F-Secure Advises That Separate Passwords For E-mail And Social Networking Are An Essential Precaution

Helsinki, Finland, August 12, 2009 -- The hugely popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have become attractive targets for phishing and scamming attacks as online criminals follow the latest Internet trends that are attracting the most users.

School’s Out and Your Kids Are Online: Do You Know What They’ve Been Searching For This Summer?

CUPERTINO, CA, August 10, 2009 -- During summer vacation, kids have more time to spend online chatting with friends, playing online games, and just surfing the Web. But this added time on the Internet can lead to trouble if parents don’t have “The Talk” with their kids about appropriate and inappropriate online behavior.

Cutwail Bounces Back from Near Death Experience and Instant Messaging Malware on the Rise

CUPERTINO, CA, June 29, 2009 -- Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the publication of its June 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report. Analysis highlights that spam levels were unchanged since May at 90.4 percent largely due to the several hours of downtime experienced by Cutwail, one of the largest and most active botnets, following the shutdown of California-based ISP, Pricewert LLC (also known as 3FN and APS Telecom) on June 5, 2009.

Green Address Bar Provides High Visibility Weapon in Fight Against Cyber Crime

BOSTON, MA, June 15, 2009 -- A YouGov survey* commissioned by VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) has revealed that 88 percent of Web users in the United States are at risk from online fraud because they can't identify the different forms of phishing currently happening online.

June 10, 2009 -- The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) offers a set of announcements for public discussion as meeting in Sydney nears. The announcements include:

New Explanatory Memo for Pre-delegation Testing for New gTLDs

The module 5 of the Draft Applicant Guidebook version 2 available since early February describes procedures applicable at the concluding stages of the gTLD application process, more specifically, a pre-delegation test addressing technical and other requirements the applicant will be asked to fulfill.

Internet Searches for Free Music Downloads, Lyrics, or Screensavers Revealed as Most Likely to Lead to Adware or Malware Laden Sites

SANTA CLARA, CA, May 27, 2009 -- Some of the riskiest searches on the Internet today are associated either with finding items for free, such as music or screensavers, or looking for work that can be done from home, according to Internet security company McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE). Search categories like these are used to lure unsuspecting consumers to their Web sites.

- Abuse of Free Hosted Domains Contributes to Continued Spam Influx
- MessageLabs Intelligence Sets Its Watch by Spam Activity

CUPERTINO, CA, May 26, 2009 -- Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the publication of its May 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report. The analysis highlights that spam experienced a further increase of 5.1 percent since last month, reaching heights of 90.4 percent.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa. – May 12, 2009 – Symantec Corp. is warning South Africans to take care to protect themselves against a plethora of attacks over the Internet and likely to hit around the 2010 FIFA World Cup Tournament, all focused on monetary gain.

“Attackers on the Internet either try to compromise legitimate websites and so gain sensitive information, or they spam e-mail users with messages that try to persuade users to go to illegitimate websites where their personal information can be harvested,” said Candid Wüest, senior security researcher for Symantec.