CU*Secure is here to provide you with basic information about that very topic: what to do to guard against phishing, and what to do if you’ve fallen victim. The CU*Secure contributers work in the credit union industry every day, dealing with phishing and account fraud all the time. We know this stuff, and it’s the information we use ourselves.
Scam artists may prey on consumers’ financial fearsWKOW-TV.com, WI - 23 hours agoPewaukee (WKOW) — from WI Credit Union League: Scam artists paying attention to the news are well aware of the changes occurring in the financial …
Websense® Security Labs™ has received reports of a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code circulating in the wild, exploiting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader 8.1.2, and Adobe Acrobat 8.1.2.
The flaw is a stack buffer overflow that results when parsing specially crafted PDF files (CVE-2008-2992). Successful exploitation allows the attacker the same level of permission rights to the [...]
Alexandria, Va., October 20, 2008 – NCUA has placed an updated share insurance estimator on its website to provide members of insured credit unions an opportunity to estimate the amount of coverage the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund now provides. The estimator, known as the Electronic Share Insurance Calculator (E-SIC), bases computations on the [...]
Know how to protect yourself from ID theftNashua Telegraph, NH - 5 hours agoDigital Credit Union in Merrimack hosted one Saturday, shredding about 1000 pounds of paper. This coming Saturday, up to two boxes of documents per person …
Fight identity theft by monitoring and reviewing your credit report. The FTC site has information regarding free credit reports available from AnnualCreditReport.com. Don’t be fooled by other for-pay sites that try to trick you into using their services. Other websites that claim to offer “free credit reports,” “free credit scores,” or “free credit monitoring” are [...]
In Jeffery Deaver’s new thriller, The Broken Window, the villan is an identity thief. Deaver relied on his own experiences with identity theft when creating this villain. Read about his experience with identity theft as well as some tips about protecting yourself at Parade Magazine.
From the article:
Each year close to 9 million people are victims [...]
A new zero-day Trojan horse/virus email is circulating the Internet. It has a subject line like “UPS Tracking Number XXXXXX” and has a zip attachment containing an executable, which if run will do very bad things. This trojan is so new anti-virus filters are not yet detecting it.
If you receive one of these emails, DO [...]
VIENNA, Va. - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is reminding the public to be alert to ongoing financial scams that attempt to solicit funds from unsuspecting victims.
In some of these scams, individuals misrepresent themselves as FinCEN officials and try to trick victims into revealing confidential information. These scams may involve the fraudulent use of [...]
It’s vacation season, the time of year when you leave your home for a week to spend that quality time with your family. But while you are away, is your home secure?
The guys over at the Institute for Security and Open Methodologies (ISECOM) have put together a Home Security guide. Basically, the took general security [...]
Websense Security LabsTM has discovered a run of spam emails that attempt to dupe users into downloading and installing a video of the solar eclipse. We have also seen similar blocks of spam purporting to contain videos of movie stars, singers, and other entertainers.
Sample subject lines include:
Lunar Eclipse Video
Your guide to the total lunar eclipse.
Shocking video with Total moon [...]
