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Standard antivirus is so from the noughties – only 1/6 antivirus vendors detected a virus

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The email is directed at members of ICAS (Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland). Someone has scrapped off the members list and partly customised the email. Normally no personal or business details are added. By adding details it is far more convincing. Note no intro (Dear John) or proper ending (Regards, Maria of Complaints Department). IP/Server is within Germany whereas the real membership body is Scottish based.

Anatomy of an email based virus #1

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The email which arrives in your mailbox. Poorly written and not massively convincing.

News of the World phone hacking is the just the tip of the iceberg, according to security expert

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As with every news story, after a few days or sometimes weeks it blows over. The old story is forgotten as a new one replaces it. The Levenson Inquiry has been released recently, with some backlash from the main three political parties. You may think with the publication of the Levenson Inquiry all the problems and vulnerabilities have gone. Think again.

To pull off a “phone hack” was relatively easy and required little information or technical knowledge. Today people still use a default PIN or a simple-to-guess PIN which means a lot of people are still vulnerable. A more sinister problem still exists in the UK and abroad: interception of telephone calls and text messages.