British Tax Office Warns Of Return Over The Shared PC

UK Tax HMRC warns taxpayers to tax not do through shared computers such as in an Internet café. These criminals would save login details and then used to apply for fraudulent tax refunds.

HMRC would now have more than 17,000 fraudulent transactions intercepted by criminals 96 million pounds (124 million euros) were trying to reclaim. It is unclear how big the threat of the use of shared computers is exactly. Opposite the Mail Online allows a spokesperson for the British Tax namely also know that the HMRC is one of the most 'phished' brands in the world.

It often happens that criminals send phishing emails that attempt to lure them recipient to a fake version of the HMRC website to steal so then login details and other information. Because phishing attacks, there is a special page put online explaining how to recognize legitimate emails from the tax authorities.

Google Reveals Password Alert Against Phishing Attacks

To prevent Internet users enter the password for their Google Account phishing sites, Google has released a new security measure unveiled . " Password Alert "is a Chrome extension that alerts users when they enter their Google password on a phishing site.

The extension, which is open source, should protect users from phishing attacks as well as encourage the use of different passwords for different websites. Once the Chrome extension is installed that will store an encrypted version of the password.Google describes this as a " salted reduced-bit thumbnail ". The extension only stores this information for security purposes and which will not share with others. Google notes that no Password Alert keylogger is no keystrokes and stores or transmits.

Chrome already offers "Safe Browsing" to warn users of phishing attacks, but it may be that phishing sites will be missed.Password will alert every time a user's Google password on a Web site that does not fill accounts.google.com is sound the alarm and tell the user to change his password. Something can be done directly through the warning. At this time, Password Alert only available for Chrome users.

Spammer Uses 750,000 Twitter Accounts For Slimming

One of the spammers have created over a period of one year 750,000 Twitter accounts and used for an extensive spam operation involving slimming based on green coffee beans were offered. To convince potential customers that the pills were legitimately used the spammer kinds Twitter accounts resembling the accounts of famous brands and celebrities, such as CNN, TMZ and MTV.

Spammers also used the Twitter accounts to real Twitterers to send these fake accounts, as reported anti-virus company Symantec. The virus fighter managed to unmask the spammer because that left some traces of his identity. For spam operation used the spammer three types of accounts. Namely new accounts that had no followers, no tweets sent out and used the standard "egg" icon. Symantec calls these accounts "eggs".

There were also accounts stolen content and tweeted photos of real women used. These accounts were followed by both the "eggs" as real users. Finally there were the "mockingbirds" accounts that occurred as the accounts of famous brands and celebrities and slimming advertised. Through the mockingbirds and parrots the spammer trying to spread the tweets about the diet pills among many people. For anyone who purchased the diet pills eventually the spammer got a fee ranging from 36 to 60 dollars.

The spammer could eventually become obsolete because he made some mistakes. So he left traces in the domains he registered and he used one of his "parrot Accounts" as a personal Twitter account. He also used some parrot accounts to retweet personal tweets.

Paying Attention

Symantec warns Twitterers to check that accounts they follow are real, identifiable by the blue tick. In addition, users of the micro blogging service wary of new followers and wants the number of followers on Twitter that someone does not say anything. "Numbers can lie," said the virus fighter. Finally follows the advice that no miracle pills exist to lose weight.

Site Checks Hijacked DNS Settings Router

The past year has regularly occurred cybercriminals adapted the DNS settings of routers so that they could direct users to malicious Web sites without direct user was clear. The Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure says it has discovered more than 300,000 residential and business routers in 2014 of which were adapted to the DNS settings.

The Domain Name System (DNS) is similar to the directory and translates among other domain names into IP addresses.By adjusting the DNS of the router can criminals traffic from users via their servers run or redirect user to as phishing sites, even though they have stated in their browser the correct URL.

The anti-virus company therefore has a website launched that can be easily verified that the DNS settings on the router or the system are hijacked. In case the DNS hijacked, users advised to disconnect their router from the Internet and reset, change the password, disable remote management and updating the firmware. In the case of custom DNS settings on the computer that can be restarted in order to empty the DNS cache and is advised to perform a virus scan.

Chinese Phishing Sites Doubled To 93,000

With an online population of 649 million people, cyber criminals are increasingly turning to the Chinese market, according to a new report from the Chinese Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team / Coordination Center (CNCERT / CC). Last year there were observed more than 93,000 phishing sites in China, a doubling from the previous year.

Furthermore, the Chinese authorities discovered 37,000 sites that were adapted, while 40,000 websites were equipped with a backdoor. Nearly 6,000 of the websites with a backdoor were controlled by American IP addresses, reports the Chinese state press agency Xinhua .