Norton Scientific Reviews: Scammers’ Valentine Treat A global security company issued a scam warning against spam messages with catchy subject lines for Internet users this Valentine’s season. Users must be extra careful in opening messages in their email accounts especially during the holidays as they can receive spam mails meant to get their attention and steal their personal data.

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2. Norton Scientific Reviews: Scammers’
Valentine Treat
• A global security company issued a scam warning against spam
messages with catchy subject lines for Internet users this
Valentine’s season.
• Users must be extra careful in opening messages in their email
accounts especially during the holidays as they can receive spam
mails meant to get their attention and steal their personal data.
• One such scam warning issued by an antivirus company describes
email messages that invites users to buy a gift for his/her loved one
for Valentine’s using an attached discount coupon from Groupon.
• Even though the proliferation of coupon services is not totally an
illegal method, their popularity comes with the risk of being used in
phishing attacks.

3. • Phishing can be done by sending a massive amount of
email messages asking people to enter their details on a
bogus website — one that looks very similar to the
popular auction sites, social networking sites and online
payment sites. They are designed to obtain personal
details like passwords, credit card information, etc.....
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• Norton Scientific Reviews: Symantec source code leaked
by hackers
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• A group of hackers who call themselves the Lords
of Dharmaraja, (and is associated with Anonymous) have
published the source code of Symantec, a digital security
firm know for the Norton antivirus program and
pcAnywhere, raising concerns that others could exploit
the security holes and try to control the users computer.
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4. • The release of the source code came after the ‘extortion’ attempt
failed as Symantec did not comply with their numerous deadlines.
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• Negotiations through email messages between a representative of
the hacker group, YamaTough, and someone from Symantec were
also released online. The exchange of messages are about
Symantec’s offer to pay USD 50,000 for the hackers to stop
disclosing the source code and announce to the public that the
whole Symantec hack was a fake, which made them a subject of
mockery for appearing to buy protection.
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• Both sides admitted that their participation was just a trick......
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