In their latest “Weekly Threat report”,VeriSign’s iDefense Intelligence Operations Team has profiled the underground market proposition of someone claiming to have 1.5 million compromised Facebook accounts available for sale. The pricing method is based on the number of contacts per compromised account, presumably with the idea to allow easier spreading of related malicious content across …
Tag Archive: phishing
Apr
06
New IT Term of the week
Easter egg Software easter eggs are secret screens, videos, graphics, or other type of message that has been buried in an application. Typically, easter eggs are used to display the credits for the development team or to display a humorous message. Easter eggs are intended to be fun and can be found in any type …
Apr
04
How Google detect phishing site
02 April 2010. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=9096&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HelpNetSecurity+%28Help+Net+Security%29 Google analyzes millions of pages per day when searching for phishing behavior. This kind of activity is, of course, not done by people but by computers. The computers are programmed to look for certain things that will identify the page as a phishing site. Those things are actually the same things …