Once the scourge of e-mail providers and the Postal Service, spammers have infiltrated the last refuge of spam-free communication: cellphones. In the United States, consumers received roughly 4.5 billion spam texts last year, more than double the 2.2 billion received in 2009, according to Ferris Research, a market research firm…
Gift card offered in text is scam
Have you received a text message offering you a free Walmart gift card? Despite the attraction of a $1,000 gift card, the Better Business Bureau is warning consumers that the Walmart gift card text message is a smishing scam. View full post on credit card scam – Yahoo! News Search…
ProtectMyID: New vocab: SMiShing describes identity theft attempts via SMS text messages. Be suspicious of text messages claiming to be from your bank.
ProtectMyID: New vocab: SMiShing describes identity theft attempts via SMS text messages. Be suspicious of text messages claiming to be from your bank. View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
Government wants to track all phone calls, emails and text messages
The UK Government will require ISP, phone and mobile companies to store details of all subscriber phone calls, emails, texts and websites visited for a year under plans designed to aid the police and intelligence services. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the new Communications Capabilities Development Programme…
Syria Blocks Protesters’ Text Messages Containing Sensitive Terms
Like us on Facebook By narrowing down modes of communications with filters, the government has effectively minimized protesters’ ability to organize and fuel dissent. However, AdaptiveMobile has denied any involvement in the human rights violations carried out using its equipments. In a statement to TheJournal.ie, AdaptiveMobile refuted the Bloomberg report…
Chicago school attacks drugs by checking students’ text messages
Chattanooga Times Free Press CHICAGO — An Illinois high school is cracking down on campus drug sales by confiscating the cellphones of student suspects and using their text messages to identify others, an investigative technique that has raised questions among some legal experts and unnerved students who said they assumed…
Syrian TV text news service hacked
DAMASCUS, Syria, Feb. 5 (UPI) — Syrian television officials say they have suspended their breaking-news texting service because their computer system appears to have been hacked. View full post on computer security alerts – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Man Receives Costly Spam Text Messages
The next time you get a spam text message on your cellphone, take a closer look. View full post on cellphone security – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Remote SMS Attack Can Force Mobile Phones to Send Premium-rate Text Messages
Attackers can force mobile phones to send premium-rate SMS messages or prevent them from receiving messages for long periods of time by leveraging a logic flaw… View full post on text spoofing – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
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