Posts Tagged with 'Phishing'

July 24, 2009

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Beware of Verified by Visa (VBV) phishing emails for Indian banks

RBI (Reserve Bank of India) recently tightened security for online shopping in India. RBI has made it mandatory for all the online transactions to have an additional level of security from August 1st 2009 onwards. This security mandate will require that a password be supplied along with other card details such as credit card number, expiry date at the time of transaction to ensure that it’s the card holder who is authorizing the payment.
It means that going forward, when you

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January 4, 2009

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Beware of this Twitter phishing scam

If you are a Twitter user, beware of an ongoing phishing scam that attempts to trick the user into revealing their login credentials. You might receive an email notification asking you to check something very funny and provide a link. When you click on the link you shall see a site masquerading as the Twitter front page. If you closely look at the URL, you shall see that it’s actually another domain. If you don’t notice this and type in

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Posted in: Internet

September 28, 2007

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OpenDNS – A Billion Dollar Business in Making

If that one line of Javascript can earn a billion dollars every year for Google, think what this free DNS service from OpenDNS can do when it will try to leverage its robust infrastructure to make some money?
For those of you who still do not know what OpenDNS does, let me give you a brief insight into their services. OpenDNS is a free service, is open for everyone to use, that translates a domain name to an IP address. It’s

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Posted in: Internet

May 14, 2007

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Bank of America Customers be Aware of This Phishing Attack

There have been many phishing attacks happened in the past but this one seems to be a major one with fraudulent emails hitting email accounts and they all are being sent from numerous email addresses. The website address used in this attack are different ones and attempting to trick Bank Of America customers to click on the embedded URLs in the email and provide the remote website with your important banking information. You must delete these emails as soon as

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Posted in: Internet | Security

February 6, 2007

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The Ultimate Tweak for Your Internet Connections

I often find it difficult to browse Internet sites with my current broadband connection from the local ISP. Sometimes the URLs does not resolve and often it takes lot of time to resolve the addresses. Searching Google for some solution to run a DNS client on my own PC resulted in discovery of [OpenDNS] and I am glad I found it and since it solved all of my DNS related issues in no time, I think it can help you

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Posted in: Internet | Unix/Linux | Windows

November 13, 2006

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Phishing: Basics of Phishing and Preventive Measures

Phishing is a kind of activity through which phishers [an attacker] make attempts to obtain sensitive information such as your credit card details, passwords of your mailbox or bank account by pretending to be from a legitimate source.
Phishing can be both socially and technically engineered. A person pretending to be from a bank and asking for your account information for regular maintenance is an example of socially engineered phishing. Where as, an email which seems to have come from from

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