Breaking News: Symantec Acquires VeriSign's security business

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Symantec announced the acquisition of Verisign's security business, which includes key technologies that enable safe and secure transactions online. Symantec will own VeriSign's name and trademarks as well as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate Services, the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Services, the VeriSign Trust Services and the VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service.

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David Beckham is the latest victim of Twitter spoofing scam

Football star David Beckham is the latest victim of a worrying scam by online fraudsters using the popular social networking phenomenon, Twitter, as a vehicle for spam advertising.

 

According to Candid Wueest, senior threat researcher at Symantec, the fraudsters create a fake Twitter account, often in the name of a celebrity, and then attempt to become followers of legitimate Twitter account holders.

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Ontario Provincial Police warns of new Internet scam

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Anti-Rackets Branch is investigating an Internet-based fraud scheme and warning the public to exercise vigilance when dealing in business transactions with unknown individuals over the Internet and/or by telephone.

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Norton Warns of Major Internet Explorer Vulnerability

Microsoft recently announced a zero-day vulnerability that affects Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8.  What is a zero-day vulnerability?  It means there’s a hole in Internet Explorer that a cybercriminal can take advantage of by creating a malicious threat that targets anyone who is using the vulnerable browser and is not protected. They’ll use tricks like spam, phishing, or fake websites that show up on search results to lure people to an infected site. 

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