Posted 07/11/08 at 04:41:32 PM by Pulkit Chandna

A man of ordinary sanity doesn’t need sophisticated e-mail filters for egregiously unconvincing messages from someone lodged in a war torn African country, informing the recipient of how the sender miraculously found him, of all Homo sapiens, and a deal worth millions awaits him. But, unfortunately enough, perfectly sane people do fall prey to such messages, and don’t fare too well against the slightly more plausible fake eBay and Paypal e-mails either.

eBay and its cognate company Paypal have tied-up with internet behemoth Google to immunize Gmail users from phishing attacks. Fraudulent e-mails, claiming to be from eBay or Paypal, would be purged by using DomainKeys and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). However, Paypal admits that the technology still needs some polishing. DomainKeys has been used for a while now and, in fact, most Yahoo Mail users might recall e-mails from some major domains including Paypal having a stamp of approval from Yahoo Domain Keys: Yahoo Domain Keys has verified that this message was sent by XYZ.com. All said, this is a good move.

Tip: If you want to be absolutely sure about your precious Paypal and eBay accounts, don’t ever click through to these websites from links embedded in emails, no matter how credible they might appear to your untrained eye. Also change your password as often as you can, preferably, as often as once a month.

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Gmail, Google, email, EBay, phishing, fraud, paypal, messages

Posted 06/13/08 at 08:55:14 PM by Mark Soper

It may be Friday the 13th, but there's good luck in the air for 64-bit Windows, Hotmail, antiphishing, and Windows XP fans. Read on for all the details.

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windows, Software, news, XP, Hotmail, phishing, pharming, SP3, CastleCops, Pro Photo Tools

Posted 11/19/07 at 09:37:25 PM by Mark 'Marcus Soperus' Soper

MSN Messenger users, it's time to batten down the hatches as a new IRC Trojan attacks both PCs and virtual network connections. Learn how it works so you can stop it.

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Security, virus, malware, phishing, social engineering, threats

Posted 09/24/07 at 11:32:52 PM by Mark Soper

Googling your way around the Internet? Watch out - cross site scripting (XSS) makes Google and other sites less safe than you think.

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phishing, XSS, cross site scripting, pharming, threat, exploit, browser

Posted 08/24/07 at 09:21:27 PM by By Mark Soper

In a one-two data-theft punch, several hundred thousand jobseekers using Monster.com have had their personal information stolen from the website last week. Here's how it happened and how to avoid being scammed.[updated 8-25-07]

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Extortionware, virus, malware, antivirus, Monster.com, phishing