Scottish Law Firm Hit By Malicious Email Hoax
News A Scottish law firm is counting the cost of a damaging hoax email that someone has sent to thousands of addresses, purporting to be from a prominent partner at the firm who promises to be a "ruthless bastard" and "screw the opposition" on behalf...
[March 7, 2003, 15:56]
Bogus Microsoft Bulletins Closed Down
News The two bogus bulletins -- complete with software patches and links to a hoax Web site -- were discovered on 10 July. The Web sites of two bogus Microsoft security bulletins were closed down on Wednesday after they were discovered to contain...
[July 18, 2001, 16:38]
New Outlook Bug Can Sting With Spam
News If you heard about this, you would call it a hoax," Cooper said, referring to an old computer myth that a single email could destroy a victim's computer. A spokesperson for USSR Labs told MSNBC.com that the group has been able to add malicious code...
[July 19, 2000, 9:05]
Thousands Fall Victim To Data Theft
News There's a security measure that people have to go through when they ring, but people are ignoring the emails because they think they're a hoax," said a Metropolitan Police spokesperson. The information has been harvested from the computers by a...
[October 10, 2006, 17:30]
'Good' Worm Fights MSBlast
News Microsoft also announced on Friday that an email hoax is circulating. Despite the apparent lack of malicious intent, the worm still sends a great deal of unwanted traffic, as it tries to spread to other computers.
[August 19, 2003, 8:50]
IM Users Hit By Widespread 'social Hack'
News And in a reversal to the usual form of socially engineered virus, last May a hoax email was passed on by well-meaning people warning recipients that their PCs may contain a virus called sulfnbk.exe. When the file is downloaded, however, it turns...
[March 20, 2002, 12:04]
