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InternetNews June 8, 2009 Alex Goldman	Symantec Says Phishers Have New Tools Automated toolkits are making it easier to attack services such as Facebook, Twitter and financial services brands.
InternetNews June 3, 2009 Alex Goldman	Scareware Arrives on Twitter in Latest Attack As new Web 2.0 threats proliferate, business IT departments struggle with basic tasks such as patch management.
InternetNews March 25, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Phishers Target Yahoo Messenger A new attack has been launched against Yahoo Messenger users, and it could be a sign of things to come.
InternetNews February 7, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Internet 'Didn't Crumble' Under DNS Attacks Internet users barely felt a ripple yesterday when hackers launched a concerted attack on several key Domain Name System servers.
InternetNews May 21, 2009 Alex Goldman	Phishers Strike Facebook in Latest Assault Facebook is fighting back against the most recent attack.
InternetNews February 23, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Malware Authors Exploit Facebook App Is a bogus application making the rounds on Facebook just a failed marketing ploy? Or something more dangerous?
InternetNews December 16, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Several Attacks Behind CheckFree Data Breach The cybercriminals who breached the CheckFree bill paying service last week used a combination attack that may be almost impossible to stop.
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InternetNews April 30, 2009 Michelle Megna	Facebook Fights Second Phishing Attack Facebook battles attackers seeking users' login information.
InternetNews August 6, 2009	Twitter, Facebook Hit in Denial-of-Service Attacks Social media phenoms Twitter and Facebook this morning suffered bouts of downtime - with each blaming a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for its woes.
InternetNews September 15, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Hackers Hit BusinessWeek With Malware The BusinessWeek.com site was hit by a SQL injection attack and connects users to a sleeper site.
InternetNews February 24, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Hackers Pounce on Excel Vulnerability Hackers have launched a new attack that uses a previously undiscovered flaw in Microsoft Excel to target business executives and government agencies.
InternetNews June 11, 2009 Alex Goldman	Malware Keeps Creeping Onto Mac OS X The Apple Mac is still seeing far fewer attacks than Windows experiences, but researchers say there's a disturbing trend at work.
InternetNews September 25, 2009	Twitter URLs Again Under Siege by Hackers Hackers are taking advantage of the popular microblogging site's limitations to spread malware.
InternetNews September 21, 2010	Twitter Hit With Mouseover Malware Attack Twitter hit with attack that sees hackers embed JavaScript within URLs in tweets that display a pop-up directing users to malicious or pornographic websites.
InternetNews January 6, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Fake Celeb Profiles in Spam Attacks Want to see "more" of your favorite actor or pop star? Bad idea.
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InternetNews April 22, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Who's Taking the Bait: 'Phishing' Skyrockets Online security groups say the scamming technique used for identity theft is proliferating as fast as viruses, with attacks up over a thousand percent since September.
InternetNews November 25, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Can You Spot The Phish Attack? According to data from e-mail security firm MailFrontier, only 4 percent of users can spot a phished e-mail 100 percent of the time.
Search Engine Watch January 20, 2010 Jason King	Google's New Approach to China: A Closer Look at the Attack Heard 'Round the Web Taking a look at the numerous security implications for Google users after last week's cyber attack on Google by China.
InternetNews June 24, 2009 David Needle	Guy Kawasaki's Tweet Gone Wild The social media expert and former Apple evangelist's Twitter account distributed a porn link leading to a Trojan. Who's to blame?
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InternetNews January 19, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Get Ready for Inauguration Spam As Obama prepares to be sworn in, hackers and spammers are gearing up for a field day.
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Paul McFedries	Gone Phishin' Microsoft is right to include antiphishing technology in Internet Explorer 7, because clearly we need all the help we can get.
InternetNews January 19, 2011	Enterprises Weigh Social Nets' Risks, Rewards New survey by security software firm Sophos reveals most companies allow employees to visit social networking sites despite obvious risks.
InternetNews November 30, 2005 Tim Gray	Phishers Play on IRS Web Site Thieves are exploiting the fear of Uncle Sam's most notorious agency to steal identities.
InternetNews August 7, 2009	Facebook, Twitter Attacks Aimed for One User An anti-Russian blogger with profiles on a number of sites may have been the intended target of yesterday's attack.
Wall Street & Technology April 14, 2006	New Phishing Twists Online financial criminals have advanced their phishing techniques, according to RSA Security, which uncovered a new type of attack that it has dubbed a Smart Redirection Attack.
InternetNews August 20, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Phishers Are Getting Together Free 'phishing kits' on the Web are making this scam easier than ever.
InternetNews February 24, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Supertoxic Site Infects eWeek.com Hackers attacked news site eWeek through DoubleClick network.
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InternetNews February 2, 2010	Twitter Responds to Phishing Attack Twitter's popularity has once again made it the target of the bad guys.
InternetNews April 10, 2009 David Needle	Short URLs Just Got Shorter New TweaK service creates shorter URLs than the other guys and sends them directly to Twitter.
InternetNews May 19, 2009	Gumblar: Biggest Threat on the Web Today? A new trojan has grown quickly, and experts aren't mincing words in describing the danger.
InternetNews February 2, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Are Legitimate Sites the Next Malware Threat? Businesses may be exposing their customers to malware by leaving their sites unpatched, IBM warns in a new study.
InternetNews May 26, 2006 Tim Scannell	Jamie de Guerre, Director, Partner Programs, Cloudmark Spam isn't going anywhere, and Jamie de Guerre's company is tracking its trails through our inboxes.
InternetNews February 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Microsoft Clamps Down on Excel Zero-Day Attack Microsoft is taking steps to protect customers from attacks through a zero-day flaw in Microsoft Excel discovered earlier this week.
InternetNews January 6, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	EBay, PayPal Rank High on Phish Lists According to year-end 2005 data from research firm Netcraft, eBay and PayPal were the top phishing targets representing 62 percent of attacks.
InternetNews March 7, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	DNS-Based Phishing Attacks on The Rise Phishers are using a pair of DNS exploits to help give them the illusion of credible domains.
InternetNews February 17, 2009 Sean Gallagher	Social Networks a Magnet for Malware Just like the crooks robbed the banks because that's where the money is, malware will go where the people are.
InternetNews September 16, 2009 Larry Barrett	Hackers Targeting Web 2.0 Sites at Alarming Rate Security software vendor Websense claims 95 percent of user-generated comments on blogs and message boards are either spam or contain malicious code.
InternetNews August 16, 2005 David Needle	Windows Worm Spreads Separate groups of hackers are releasing a barrage of worms related to the Zotob.B virus in a battle to seize control of innocent users' computers. CNN, ABC and the NY Times, are among those hit.
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