According to Sophos, a vendor for anti-virus software, Internet banking fraud in the UK dropped one-third in 2007 compared to 2006, with banks still losing £ 22.6 Million to the Internet banking fraudsters. As per reports in 2006 alone, online bank customers in the UK lost a startling £ 33.5 Million to phishers, calling for increased wariness against phishing scams.
Commenting on online phishing and banking frauds, Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant, Sophos, warns end-users that banking Trojans, the malware that monitors end-users’ computers to capture the (more…)
Kaspersky Lab, the provider of Internet Threat Management solutions designed to protect computers against all kinds of malware, said that it discovered a variant of Gpcode emcryptor virus called Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak. Kaspersky Lab issued a signature for the variant on June 4, 2008, as reported by marketwire on June 5, 2008.
According to Kaspersky Lab, the latest variant of Gpcode that has been detected after nearly one and a half years, is a severe threat unlike previously because this time, the malware is employing powerful encryption that till now it has challe (more…)
This white paper describes the components of a typical messaging environment and the recommended reporting, analysis, and diagnostic practices you should use to maintain the health of this complex environment.
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