Here is a new phishing email that I have never seen before – targeted at the Apple Store. I suppose with the ever increasing usage of this site it could only be a matter of time before someone found a way to benefit from targeting phishing emails at it. And receiving this email on my [...]
Here is a clever phishing email targeted at PayPal that readers might need to be aware of. Quite cleverly it was aimed at the email address that is displayed on my contact page, which is (of course) a website design site. However, that’s a receiving email only and doesn’t associate with PayPal, so I knew [...]
A version of the Zeus Trojan is proving to be the most dangerous ever virus and is targeted at users of online banking systems. It is estimated that some 3,000 online banking customers have been affected by this extremely complicated virus. It first checks to see if there is at least £800 in your bank [...]
In a frightening report, it is claimed that up to 100,000 computers could be affected by the same Trojan, which specifically targets UK based computers. This is, at first, a frightening figure – something around 0.5% of the UK’s households could contain an infected machine. But, experts expect that the situation might not be as [...]
The following email arrived overnight, and it looks very realistic. Sent from ‘hallmark.com’, with graphics that outlook blocked (and probably a good job too), it contains the following message: “Hello! You have recieved a Hallmark E-Card. To see it, click here, There’s something special about that E-Card feeling. We invite you to make a friend’s [...]
