Online auction site eBay has made public the details of a three-year long campaign to curb online fraud being perpetrated from criminals in Romania -- an effort that has resulted in several hundred arrests.
Another e-mail scam is targeting the users of eBay, claiming their use of the auction site has been restricted until they update their account information.
Click on an eBay auction listing, and you could get an unwanted result: a fake eBay login page, created by scammers looking to pilfer your username and password.
PayPal subscribers are being targeted by a fraudulent e-mail scheme designed to con them into handing over their personal information.
The past several weeks have seen a rash of "phishing" expeditions, where fraudulent spam has been sent out attempting to trick the recipients into providing their bank account details.
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Skype sees the mobile market as the next frontier for its service, but economic realities in the voice market -- coupled with mobile operators who feel threatened by Skype -- could put the kibosh on large-scale adoption for some time to come.
Cybercriminals are spreading a malicious Trojan horse under the guise of an update to Skype, e-mail security firm MessageLabs said on Monday.
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Like a lot spam, phishing is a form of unsolicited commercial e-mail. Whereas all spam is not a scam, all attempts at phishing are scams, and the potential losses to corporations and consumers alike are stunning. Find out what you can do to protect yourself.
The typical image of a hacker is a kid hunched over his keyboard in the wee hours of the night staring at commands on his computer screen that unlock the secrets of the national government. But the woman sitting next to you at Starbucks fiddling with her digital camera could be just as dangerous.
Phishing scams work on an embarrasingly low percentage of users -- but apparently that's enough to keep them profitable.
Office Live is still not an online version of Office, but the set of small business tools has a few new tricks and is heading out of beta.
Though Skype 2 suffers from middling voice quality when calling landline phones, it's still one of the best free VoIP services around, and its new Skype Video feature makes it even better.
If you don't mind paying for Web browser features found nowhere else, Opera 8's the browser for you.
Virus writers are merging spam, phishing and Trojan programs to develop more complex attacks on the unwary.
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