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  • VIPRE Security News Vol.1, #5 – August 10, 2011 – Issue #5 contains a list of both government and corporate email addresses to send incidents of fraud and/or phishing.

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  • The latest issue of Vipre Security News contains some articles on email spoofing and what to do if your email account is hijacked. … email spoofing is the forgery of an email so it appears to be coming from someone other than the actual source. Spammers often use spoofing to get folks to open and

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  • This Enterprise Systems article highlights once again that protecting yourself from phishing attacks requires guidance and training. Relying on good intentions is not enough. Many are tricked into clicking on links in phishing e-mail messages anyway. The cleverness of cybercriminals can still overcome the best intentions of employees. As Sjouwerman [KnowBe4 founder and CEO Stu

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  • ars technica writes, “The Security Update 2011-003 that Apple released on Tuesday directly addressed the Mac Defender malware threat in two ways: it changed the way malware files are detected by enabling automatic daily updates, and included code to remove at least two of its variants.” The article further discusses Apple’s response to a growing

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  • Apple posted this article regarding: A recent phishing scam has targeted Mac users by redirecting them from legitimate websites to fake websites which tell them that their computer is infected with a virus. The user is then offered Mac Defender “anti-virus” software to solve the issue. And MacWorld writes: Online crime falls mostly into four

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