Phishers copy e-mail notifications and add a phoney link, which takes customers to a pseudo-site, says Mia Papanicolaou, messaging specialist at Striata.
Social media identity theft is growing along with the Web 2.0 phenomenon.
A video out of SA has been included in the YouTube documentary, Life in a Day.
Kaspersky says it blocked a record number of security threats during the 2010 festive season.
Local IT spending will hit $14.4 billion this year, growing at a rate of more than double that of the economy.
Apple's Mac App Store finally goes live, and inadvertently gives South Africans bargain buys.
Local users can save approximately R40 000 per image taken by SumbandilaSat.
In today's technology roundup: Fraudulent iTunes on sale, Facebook's financials demanded, RIM cagey on PlayBook outing, and Flash Player security bypassed.
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In this World Wide Wrap: Intrinsic snaps up Dataplex, China goes mobile, and Qualcomm acquires Atheros.
Messages claiming to share users' first Facebook status updates are being posted by a rogue application.
The Module Safe Light offers multi-functionality and system-tested security.