Get the news directly from the IRS website on this latest phishing scam….”The e-mail purporting to be from IRS Criminal Investigation falsely states that the person is under a criminal probe for submitting a false tax return to the California Franchise Tax Board. The e-mail seeks to entice people to click on a link or [...]
Entries from August 28th, 2007
IRS Warns of New Phishing Scam
August 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Computer Privacy and Security
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Interview with Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook
August 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Social Networking
From The Buffalo News comes a brief and informative interview with Chris Kelly, the chief privacy officer of Facebook. He notes that Facebook differs from Myspace in that “[Facebook has] been very focused on authenticity all along. We have a real-name culture vs. a screen-name culture. We’re not so much about meeting new people as [...]
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AOL Phisher Faces Prison
August 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Computer Privacy and Security
Computerworld reports that an AOL phisher, Michael Dolan, has pleaded guilty to federal charges and will be sentenced to prison. According to the report…”from 2002 through 2006, Dolan and others used software to harvest AOL account names from the service’s chat rooms, then sent messages posing as electronic greeting cards that were actually transporting Trojan [...]
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