Day: December 1, 2005

Phishers use IRS tax refund as bait | CNET News.com

Phishers use IRS tax refund as bait | CNET News.com Click on above link for more info. Insufficient programming on a government Web site is helping cybercriminals pose as the Internal Revenue Service in a scam to collect sensitive data, some security experts warn. A spam e-mail message has been sent around the world telling people they are eligible for a $571.94 tax refund from the IRS. The e-mail offers a link to a fraudulent IRS Web site, but the link actually goes through a legitimate government Web site that only last month was promoted by President

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Sober storms charts as month’s biggest attack | Tech News on ZDNet

Sober storms charts as month’s biggest attack | ZDNet For more info click on the link above Malicious messages that purport to be from the FBI, CIA or Paris Hilton generated the vast majority of virus-laden e-mail traffic in November, according to security companies. The e-mails carry a new variant of the Sober worm in an attachment which, when opened, infects the recipient’s computer. The worm then attempts to disable antivirus programs and send copies of itself to any e-mail addresses found on the hard drive.

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Sony BMG faces the music | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Sony BMG faces the music | CNET News.com Sony BMG Music Entertainment, feeling the legal heat over the copy-protection software in millions of its music CDs, last week was sued in both Texas and California. By exploiting a hole in the copy protection code, virus writers could modify an old Trojan horse to take advantage of the powerful, though inadvertent, shielding provided by the Sony software. Sony eventually announced that, as part of a review of its digital rights management strategy, it would suspend production of CDs that contain this particular copy-protection technology. For more info click

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