In the past couple of months, Symantec has observed a mass phishing attack on two major brands that provide retail electronic payment services for banks across the globe.

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Mass Phishing of Retail Electronic Payment Brands

In February, spammers continued to use the news of the earthquake in Haiti and the recent earthquake in Chile as another vector to utilize.

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Spam and Phishing Landscape: March 2010

Recently, Symantec received some malicious files which appeared to be signed by “Adobe Systems Incorporated”. On closer inspection, however, it was seen that the signature was just a ruse used by the malware author to give an air of legitimacy to the files.

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Viruses and Digital Signatures

It’s been ten years already; can you believe it? I’m talking about the U.S.

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The U.S. Census 2010: Don’t be Counted as a Victim of Online Fraud

The popularity of online auctions paves way for the development of online auction marketing tools. These tools are software applications that are intended to facilitate the sellers’ side of popular online auction websites

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Phishing the Brands of Online Auction Marketing Tools

Symantec has recently observed phishing scams targeting Apple iPhones in order to gain serial numbers, IMEI, model, and capacity, etc. What is an IMEI

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Apple iPhone Warranty Scam

The year 2000—or Y2K—was a year in which we witnessed the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, a United States presidential election decided by the the Supreme Court, and the burst of the dot-com bubble.

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2000 – 2009: The Spam Explosion

When I worked at a small business the IT guy also took care of the phone system, assembled bookcases if needed, and occasionally worked the front desk when the receptionist was on break. In a small business everyone wears many hats and you often don’t really have the skills necessary to do everything asked of you all that well.

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Half Right is All Wrong

Notable highlights this month include the continuing shift of the region of message origin to APJ and South America, and changes in the average size of spam messages.