Fake Google Email Attempts to Steal Your Money
We all know that Google, the Mountain View super search giant, communicates with its users by phone or by email every time users have to be informed about important matters.
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23.3.2008 Bill Gates - Too much money to tax
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said today the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast.
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1.2.2006 Gates pumps money into ethanol
According to an SEC filing, the Microsoft chairman holds a 25.5% stake in corn-fuel maker Pacific Ethanol.
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25.4.2006 YouTubers to get ad money share
People who upload their own films to video-sharing website YouTube will soon get a share of the ad revenue.
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28.1.2007 Yahoo to Microsoft: Show us the money
The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today sent the following letter to Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation.
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7.4.2008 How Microsoft spends its money online
Microsoft's online spending plans will be a central topic today at the company's annual meeting with financial analysts, as detailed in this post yesterday.
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24.7.2008 7 Ways You Will Save Money with Windows 7
Judging from the test version that was widely downloaded by the public, shifting to Microsoft's Windows 7 promises to inflict much less pain than its predecessor, Vista.
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12.3.2009 Microsoft investigating fake WinLogon patch
Microsoft is investigating an e-mail that appears to be a security warning from the software heavyweight which patches a vulnerability in the "WinLogon Service".
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29.5.2006 Firefox, IE vulnerable to fake login pages?
Mozilla's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords.
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23.11.2006 Microsoft Offers Money to Edit Wikipedia
Microsoft is finding itself in hot water after it was revealed that the company offered to pay an Australian blogger to correct information on Wikipedia regarding its Office Open XML standard.
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24.1.2007 Probably Fake IE8 alpha screenshots appear on the Internet
IE8 is set to be released in mid-2008, so we can fully expect IE9 to ship with Windows 7 (formerly known as Windows Vienna).
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5.7.2007 Beware: Fake Microsoft patch malware
“We received some questions from customers about an e-mail that’s circulating that claims to be a security e-mail from Microsoft.
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15.10.2008 Incoming - Real and fake Win7 patches
Microsoft has made available a patch to a Windows 7 bug in the Release Candidate (RC) and is preparing to roll out some “fake” test patches to verify Windows 7’s automatic-updating abilities this week.
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13.5.2009 Microsoft Deletes Fake Xbox Live Accounts
Following on from the recent launch of the video marketplace for the Xbox 360, many users who suffer from regional download barriers, simply created fake accounts from outside America.
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29.11.2006 Money joins Encarta in Microsoft product bin
Microsoft is to scrap another underperforming product, after revealing that it plans to stop selling Money, its financial management software, at the end of the month.
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11.6.2009 Microsoft researchers follow Web spam money trail
Using a homegrown tool called Fiddler, researchers at Microsoft have come up with a system to track the money that flows from big-name advertisers to search engine spammers.
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22.3.2007 Windows 7 RC1 Build 7048 is Fake may be 7041 or 7046
Last time we talked about Windows 7 RC1 build 7048 which was rumored to be released a group of Beta Tester. Win7info a dedicated Windows 7 blog reveals that the actual build was 7041 not 7048. According to Geeksmack : ”
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1.3.2009 Fake Windows patch e-mail leads to Trojan horse attack
Messages insisting that users install a just-released Microsoft Corp. security update are bogus and actually lead to a site that plants malicious code on PCs, several security companies warned today.
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28.6.2007 Leaked Google Chrome OS Private Beta Screenshots Are Fake
Just a day after Google confirmed that it was cooking its own breed of open source operating system, the first screenshots allegedly depicting Google Chrome Operating System got leaked.
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9.7.2009End of the road for Microsoft Money
According to CNet, Microsoft will soon be bringing to an end its Money line of personal finance management software. From Microsoft's Money FAQ,
the products affected include Microsoft Money Essentials, Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe, Microsoft Money Plus Premium and Microsoft Money Plus Home &
Business. For Microsoft Money Essentials, online services (online stock/share quotations and bill-paying) will stop one year after activation or 31
January 2011, whichever comes first.
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11.06.2009Fix for free anti-virus generating fake traffic
The freeware version of anti-virus software AVG 8 was released with a feature called LinkScanner at the end of May that was found to create massive
amounts of fake traffic, enraging webmasters, and skewing site rankings...
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07.07.2008Apple: Fake Memo Didn't Come from Internal Server
Apple attempted to squash the
confusion surrounding a fake
memo published on AOL blog
Engadget Wednesday, which
claimed both the iPhone and
Leopard were being delayed and
temporarily led to a major
drop in Apple stock. The
company says the memo was
not sent from its
servers...
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18.05.2007Identity of 'Fake Steve Jobs' Revealed
The identity of Fake Steve
Jobs is a secret no more. The
author of the popular Web log
that for the past year has
taken a candid look at the
world of CEO blogs has finally
revealed himself...
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06.08.2007Fake sites with Obama news infect users with malware
Trend Micro Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson has discovered fake websites with headlines like Barack Obama has refused to be a president and
links that take the user to fake Obama sites which mimick the official Obama website. Trend Micro has found binaries with file names like barack.exe
and baracknews.exe which belong to Waladec family of worms that spread more after New Year as spam greeting cards. Below is a glimpse of the fake
obama website Some of the malware found are: WORM_WALEDAC.KAX WORM_WALEDAC.AE WORM_WALEDAC.AG WORM_WALEDAC.AD WORM_WALEDAC.AL WORM_WALEDAC.AH
TROJ_AGENT.DOZZ TSPY_BANKER.BFE TROJ_DLOADER.XGZ BKDR_KRYPTIK.AB These malware are mostly hosted on domains that contain Obama-related key words.
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21.01.2009Fake Vuittons cost eBay real money
Online auction service eBay has been ordered by a French court to pay $63 million to French fashion company Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), the
company responsible for making Louis Vuitton and Dior branded handbags and perfume...
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02.07.2008Carbonite caught red-handed posting fake product reviews
It was just 10 days ago we had the news of Belkin paying people to post fake reviews and the comments of anonymous Belkin employees confirming those
fake reviews, we now have Carbonite - an online backup service provider setting a similar example. The Daily Background highlights the dirty
practices of yet another tech company posting positive reviews of their own products. Bruce, an annoyed customer who wanted to write reviews in
Amazon.com regarding his experiences with Carbonite, found out that the high level employees of carbonite gave positive product reviews disguised as
normal users.
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29.01.2009EU cracks down on fake blogger astroturfing
Nothing beats word of mouth for getting people to put their hand in their pockets. So it didn't take long for cheeky marketing departments to cotton
on to the power of blogs and pose as consumers praising their own particular widget to the skies to help lift their top line.
Sneaky, perhaps, but usually legal. Not for much longer, however, as covert commercial blogging - or flogging - will soon be banned by
Brussels.
Under laws due to come into force at the beginning of next year, but likely to be delayed until April for the UK,
companies posing as consumers on fake blogs, providing fake testimonies on consumer rating websites such as TripAdvisor, or writing fake book reviews
on Amazon risk criminal or civil liability.
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04.11.2007Symantec: Fake security software on millions of computers
Millions of computer in the US are infected with fake security software, which their owners may have even paid for, according to a cybercrime report
from security company Symantec. Such software would only make computers more vulnerable, possibly allowing cybercrooks to take complete control of an
infected computer. "Lots of times, in fact they're a conduit for attackers to take over your machine. They'll take your credit card
information, any personal information you've entered there and they've got your machine," said Vincent Weafer, Symantec's vice president
for security response. Symantec found 250 different kinds of fake security software installed on computers, all with perfectly legitimate sounding
names such as "Antivirus 2010" and "SpywareGuard 2008".
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19.10.2009Microsoft Releases New Money
Lineup
Microsoft on Thursday launched
its 2007 versions of Money,
including an
"Essentials" package
priced at just $19.99 USD. The
simple application links up to
thousands of banks and enables
customers to more easily
manage their money and bills...
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20.07.2006Economic Hardship Gives Birth to New, More Sophisticated Scammers
The money crisis has not only rippled through the offline lives of millions, but those who felt they were safe from losing their homes or retirement
funds are now facing new risks each time they browse the internet. At one time phishing for private information was primarily done with trojans and
other malware designed to spread easily between computers and steal a user's personal data such as their social security number, credit card
numbers and bank account information. Unfortunately these easy to detect and remove programs are no longer the norm as cyber-criminals have become
more computer and consumer savvy to get tight-fisted computer users to part with their money.
PandaLabs has released an alert in
regards to a new way that crooks have begun stealing money from unsuspecting computer users. Cyber-criminals are creating and releasing fake
antivirus programs and websites designed to scare the average user into believing their computer has a virus and in order to remove it they'll
need to activate an antivirus or follow a link to download it.
"More than 30 million users have been infected by this new wave of fake
antivirus programs," said Ryan Sherstobitoff, chief corporate evangelist for Panda Security. "The information we have at present suggests that
approximately 3 percent of these users have provided their personal details in the process of buying a product that claims to disinfect their
computers. Extrapolating from an average price of $68.31, we can calculate that the creators of these programs are receiving more than
$13,666,000 per month."
Spread through peer-to-peer sharing websites, adult sites and fake sites, the popups and programs look and act
so much like the real thing, as shown in fake Google image below, that even knowledgeable computer users are falling victim to this latest scam. Once
detected on a victim's computer, it can take days to remove completely.
Protecting yourself or friends and family though is easy.
Ensure that they have a legit antivirus on their computer and that they understand and know how to use it and always keep them up-to-date on the
latest scams that you find floating around the internet.
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15.10.2008Economic hardship gives rise to more sophisticated scammers
The money crisis has not only rippled through the offline lives of millions, but those who felt they were safe from losing their homes or retirement
funds are now facing new risks each time they browse the Internet. At one time phishing for private information was primarily done with trojans and
other malware designed to spread easily between computers and steal a user's personal data such as their social security number, credit card
numbers and bank account information. Unfortunately these easy to detect and remove programs are no longer the norm as cyber-criminals have become
more computer and consumer savvy to get tight-fisted computer users to part with their money.
PandaLabs has released an alert in
regards to a new way that crooks have begun stealing money from unsuspecting computer users. Cyber-criminals are creating and releasing fake
antivirus programs and websites designed to scare the average user into believing their computer has a virus and in order to remove it they'll
need to activate an antivirus or follow a link to download it.
"More than 30 million users have been infected by this new wave of fake
antivirus programs," said Ryan Sherstobitoff, chief corporate evangelist for Panda Security. "The information we have at present suggests that
approximately 3 percent of these users have provided their personal details in the process of buying a product that claims to disinfect their
computers. Extrapolating from an average price of $68.31, we can calculate that the creators of these programs are receiving more than
$13,666,000 per month."
Spread through peer-to-peer sharing websites, adult sites and fake sites, the popups and programs look and act
so much like the real thing, as shown in fake Google image below, that even knowledgeable computer users are falling victim to this latest scam. Once
detected on a victim's computer, it can take days to remove completely.
Protecting yourself or friends and family though is easy.
Ensure that they have a legit antivirus on their computer and that they understand and know how to use it and always keep them up-to-date on the
latest scams that you find floating around the internet.
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15.10.2008Steve Ballmer's Presentation Laptop, (We Hope This Pic is Fake)
Gizmodo
came across a
very interesting photo (possibly fake) from one of Steve Ballmer's
presentations:
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28.04.2008US shuts down 'scareware' sellers
The US government has moved to shut down sellers of fake security software. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has won a restraining order that stops
several sellers of "scareware" from continuing to trade. Millions of people are thought to have been caught out by the software which, once
installed, issues false alerts about viruses and illegal porn. The FTC is pursuing further legal action to win a permanent ban on those peddling
the scareware. Court papers submitted by the FTC show that the peddlers of the fake security software tricked websites into advertising their
products. The companies behind the fake security software won customers via adverts on many popular websites.
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13.12.2008Is Xbox a Money Pit?
Microsoft is losing money on
the consoles, but seeding the
market, researchers say...
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29.11.2005"Windows 7 Video" Is Fake
Robert McLaws: A couple different websites around the net have been reporting over the past few days on
a new video making the rounds on YouTube, purporting to be a video demo of
Windows "7". While it is pretty high quality, very elaborate, and shows off some pretty interesting stuff, multiple sources inside Microsoft have
told me it's a fake. One source told me that security on Windows 7 is extremely tight for various reasons, and that we shouldn't expect to see
anything for quite a while yet.
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15.05.2008Introducing the fake Microsoft Store
Microsoft today unveiled it's "Retail Experience Center". The experience center is like a real Microsoft store but unfortunately it's fake.
This store acts, feels and functions like a real store and was built at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, WA (USA). The Retail Experience
Center is a private, 20,000-square-foot facility housing a fully functioning, interactive store environment, from point of service to receiving dock.
The Retail Experience Center is also part of Microsoft's larger effort to establish a research facility to better understand and address how
consumers are experiencing the Windows brand at retail as they select and purchase PCs.
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12.01.2009Apple finishes with Think Secret, targets Fake Steve Jobs
Apple Incorporated’s lawyers have found a new target: the fake Steve Jobs. Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes, is the author of the blog
“The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs”, which is written by him in first person, as if it were Jobs himself writing. Most blog entries are
simply little snippets of what’s happening in the tech world, usually completely irrelevant to Jobs or even Apple. The lawyers are, however,
interested in three posts that they “deem to be actionable”. They emphasize, of course, that they don’t want to take any legal
action and that it’s all up to Lyons. Apparently, the lawyers just want to talk about the problem and not actually take anyone to court or send
them a cease-and-desist letter.
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23.12.2007Facebook users targeted by botnet spam
Facebook users have been targeted by a large-scale spam attack that informs them that their password has been reset, and that the attached zip archive
contains their new password. Instead of a new password, users will find a trojan downloader, dubbed "Bredlab" or "Bredolab" by anti-virus
companies. The downloader then downloads additional malware from two servers, including fake anti-virus software, and joins the Bredolab botnet. This
gives attackers full control of the PC, allowing them to steal user information or use the PC to send spam emails. One of the servers is based in the
Netherlands, with the other in Kazakhstan, according to an alert on Websense, a security research company.
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30.10.2009Microsoft to stop boxed sales of Money
Although it has been offering its financial suite in a downloadable version for quite some time, beginning with the 2009 version of Money Plus, it
will no longer be sold through retail channels...
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