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Why loyal Yahoo mail users switched to other email providers

Yahoo was one of the hottest business couple of years back. They had a great frontend, paid services for extra storage and tons of small business tools. As business grows they lost focus on their core business. Overt the time, spam increased exponentially, yahoo messenger was screaming of spam links all the time, spammers used […]
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Southwest Two free tickets Spam on facebook

  Every other day either I am tagged on Facebook with Southwest free tickets or I keep hearing my friends who signed up for this spam.  This has been going on for a while and Facebook has not been able to do anything with their security/fraud team. This version says something along the lines of “TWO FREE Southwest Airline […]
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‘Your Kindle e-book Amazon receipt’ themed emails lead to Black Hole Exploit Kit – Webroot

  Webroot, warns users about the possible phishing attack for Amazon kindle users. As per webroot, Cyber criminals are attempting to phish Kindle owners into thinking that they have received a receipt from an E-book purchase from Amazon.com. In real, when a users click on any of the links found in the malicious emails, they are […]
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Zeus Botnet Eurograbber steals 36 million euros from banks

A new version of the Zeus trojan, all time favorite of criminals for financial fraud has been used in attacks on over 30,000 electronic banking customers in Europe, infecting both their personal computers and smartphones. The sophisticated attack is designed to circumvent banks’ use of two-factor authentication for transactions by intercepting messages sent by the […]
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Apple text scam Beware

Have you ever received a text to receive any free Apple product ?  If the answer is yes you may be the victim of Apple scam.  As per multiple reports this is the technique to fool the users. The typical text may read like this “Congratulations, your today’s Apple winner! Go to [REDACTED] and on last […]
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