Email Security Articles
Newest phishing scam threatens victims with a lost drivers licence
Drivers in the United Kingdom are being scammed out of their personal and financial data as a new phishing ploy tells victims to submit all their information or risk losing their license, according to Computeractive.
Users of Amazon latest targeted in phishing scam
Leaked passwords from a data breach brought a rise in malicious emails to users of LinkedIn and eHarmony in early June, but it does not appear as if any theft is behind a string of phishing attacks targeted at Amazon customers, according to the Los Angeles Wave.
DOD personnel subject of new phishing attack
Emails emanating from a spoofed dot-mil email address have been circulating among members of the U.S. Department of Defense, according to NBC News Las Vegas.
Study: Spam, phishing, viruses all on rise
Phishing emails have more than doubled their 2011 numbers, as email security threats rose virtually across the board, according to a study from a German cybersecurity firm.
Dot-gov emails most likely to be faked
Phishing scams looking to take money from citizens or national secrets from government contractors are faking the addresses of dot-gov senders at a higher rate than any other sector, according to a study by the Online Trust Alliance (OTA).
Tumblr a top home to spam
Much has been made of spam accounts and like-jacking on social media giants like Twitter and Facebook.
