New Delhi: Two foreigners were arrested in the capital for allegedly hacking the bank account of a confectionery company in New Delhi and fraudulently withdrawing about Rs 16 lakh. A laptop, mobile phone, fake South African passport and Indian Visa and other materials were recovered from Evans Ukah Mendi (34), who is from Cameroon, and William Tambo (37), hailing from South Africa, police said on Monday. On February 29, a...
09:33 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New York: Google, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing. Such scams try to trick people into giving away passwords and other personal information by sending emails that look as if they come from a legitimate bank, retailer or other business. When Bank of America customers see emails that appear to come from the bank, they might click on...
12:10 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Shanghai: The Chinese government is working with domestic Internet search engines like Baidu Inc and Sohu.com, and financial institutions to prevent phishing attacks on unsuspecting Chinese web users. The Ministry of Public Security said on Friday it would work with 10 Chinese search engines to protect the website rankings of financial institutions to lessen the chances that Internet users will be duped by phishing websites. A phishing attack occurs when...
12:01 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: The government today said 386 'phishing' incidents were reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) between January and October this year. "There have been incidents reported to CERT-In by law enforcement agencies on the hacking of email accounts and posting of objectionable content, including videos, on the internet, especially on social networking websites, damaging the reputation of individuals," Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin...
04:07 PM, Nov 25, 2011
Las Vegas: Hackers are out to stymie your smartphone. Last week, security researchers uncovered yet another strain of malicious software aimed at smartphones that run Google's popular Android operating system. The application not only logs details about incoming and outgoing phone calls, it also records those calls. That came a month after researchers discovered a security hole in Apple Inc.'s iPhones, which prompted the German government to warn Apple about...
07:28 AM, Aug 08, 2011
Boston: Tens of millions of customers and employees of major banks, hotels and retailers are now at risk of "spear-phishing" attacks after hackers stole their email addresses in what may become one of the biggest data breaches ever, security experts warned. The massive breach, involving online marketer Epsilon, a unit of Alliance Data Systems Corp, looks like it will mainly put individuals at risk if they respond to camouflaged emails...
12:18 PM, Apr 05, 2011
New Delhi: Cyber crooks are on the prowl this financial year closing and are using phishing attacks and hoax-alerts to gain access to account details of individuals who have filed their Income Tax returns online, warn experts. "It is the season of income tax returns. Many people file them online. Cyber criminals use this time to launch phishing attacks through emails as many people are not aware of these things,"...
12:13 PM, Mar 22, 2011
Washington: An e-mail virus has attacked servers across the world, including those at NASA and Google, and possibly the US internal security department office. The virus, called "here you have" or "VBMania", is a simple Trojan Horse that arrives in your inbox with the odd-but-suggestive subject line "here you have", the Fox News said Saturday. The body reads "This is The Document I told you about, you can find it...
06:12 PM, Sep 11, 2010
Phishing is has become yet aother internet hazard. ...
01:42 AM, Oct 07, 2009
It's time you think before you click on your computer. ...
04:19 PM, May 26, 2009
Hackers have begun targeting popular social networking sites. ...
11:52 AM, May 26, 2009
A phishing attack spread through chat sessions, including Google Chat. ...
08:11 PM, Feb 25, 2009
Perth: Australia cannot even think that their players would be involved in match-fixing as anti-corruption is a deeply ingrained part of their cricket culture, according to Cricket Australia (CA). The fixing issue re-surfaced in England when former Essex player Mervyn Westfield admitted to have received corrupt payments during a County match against Durham. The England Wales Cricket Board (ECB) then came with an amnesty offer to players to reveal past...
07:10 PM, Apr 10, 2008
Sydney: Former Australian cricketer Simon Katich looked in top form when he returned to the nets for the first time since his shocking dumping by Cricket Australia. Katich joined his New South Wales (NSW) teammates on a frosty Sydney morning on Tuesday at the SCG's indoor nets - less than 50m from where the left-hander lashed out at the selectors last month when his contract was cut. Katich padded up...
12:00 AM, Feb 14, 2008
Certain bureaucrats had earlier reported problems with their mail accounts. ...
04:38 PM, Oct 08, 2007
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