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How to keep safe from fraud:


“Your personal information is valuable, so, protect it.”   This is the key message from the recently launched campaign by the National Fraud Authority, Telecommunications UK Fraud Forum (TUFF) and Financial Fraud Action UK.   The campaign, ‘The Devil’s in …
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A new risk to online banking users: Trojan.Neloweg


A new banking Trojan has been discovered to be infecting a number of users in the UK and the Netherlands. The Trojan, named Trojan.Neloweg, has been reported to steal the login credentials, including banking details, of these users. At this …
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Managed Services Centre’s Online Threat Predictions for 2012


As mentioned in a previous post, 2012 is deemed to be the year of Identity Fraud. One of the contributing factors to this is the increase in sophistication of cybercriminal activities and the methods used to access and steal data …
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Are you aware of Key-Logging and should you be worried?


Over the last year we have dealt with an increase in cases whereby our customers’ or those of our customers’, PC’s have been infected with key-loggers. Key-loggers will steal all information entered into a computer and then the cybercriminals will …
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Facebook Users Warned of a Spreading Malware Attack


Facebook users are being warned of a worm that is spreading around the social networking site which is suspected to be downloading and installing a variety of malware on user’s machines, including a variant of the Zeus Trojan.   It …
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