August seems to be the month for security tips, so we thought we should publish some. There are certainly more than ten security mistakes to be made - and over the years we’ve seen plenty of people making them, so the hardest part of this list was narrowing it down to just ten. We considered using hexidecimal for our top “10″, but even squeezing in an extra six wouldn’t do enough to make the selection process easier. So after a harrowing process of elimination, we have… straight in at number 10…
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On the subject of increasing Phishers becoming ever more sophisticated - we’ve seen several Phishing sites using valid SSL Certificates.
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The new year begins…

Phishing has increased and the number of viruses has doubled!! This is the highest percentage of viruses we have seen since last April. Spam has decreased - well originating from China that is, which is not due to less spammers…………

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The latest in the phishing world!

Yesterday we received yet another email purporting to be from Barclays bank, requiring the customer to update their personal information, due to an error in upgrading the security software.

The interesting part of this email was the level of processing required by the phisherman - in the header of the email, the the recipient’s email address was to ‘firstname’@xxx, which is the usual. But in the main body of the email, the display name was ‘Dear firstname lastname’. In most phishing emails received, a salutaion does appear at the beginning of the mail, and if one is present it is the firstname or username of the recipient.

The little extras put in by the phisherman, constantly improves the ‘reality’ of the mail.

Christmas Spirit

The overall statisitics for viruses and phishing have not fluctuated much from last month. Spam is down slightly.

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Spam has gone up by ~4% while phishing is gone down since last month.
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Ebay is one of the top targeted sites for phishing emails. It has been in the top ten since the launch of the phishery. As phishing is largely based around social engineering, the security risk of some one clicking on a site is extremely probable.

In this article we investigate, in detail, a phishing scam, and provide insight into how effective they are, and who the likely victims will be.

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You’ve almost certainly come across the terms Dark Matter, Dark Energy,
or even Dark Fibre.
But we’ve recently come across a suitably similar form
of spam. Spam that is there but you can’t normally see it! - Dark Spam.
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After the global wave of phishing emails reaching a peak at the end of last week, by the 12th of November, it had tailed off. Here is the reason why
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October ….

This month, spam has increased while phishing and viruses have gone down slightly.
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