Archive for tag: phishing

IE8 Beats Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera In Catching Socially Engineered Malware

14 August, 2009 (09:42) | General, Malware, Microsoft, Software, Web | By: admin

From Dark Reading: Internet Explorer 8 detected nearly three times as many socially engineered malware links than Apple’s Safari 4 and Mozilla’s Firefox 3, according to new test results from an independent security lab. IE8 blocked 81 percent of socially engineered malware URLs — those links that appear to be legitimate in order to dupe [...]

Apple MobileMe Phishing Scam

15 August, 2008 (10:17) | Apple, General, Software, Web | By: admin

From US-CERT US-CERT is aware of public reports of a phishing attack circulating via email messages that appear to be targeting Apple MobileMe users. These messages claim that there is a problem with the user’s billing information and instruct the user to follow a web link to update personal information. Clicking on this link directs [...]