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On CBSNews.com, Daniel Sieberg tells Katie Couric how to protect your kids from online sex offenders on social-networking sites such as MySpace. It is very easy to create a fake profile on social networking website like MySpace as there is no verification process in place. You can fake the photograph, the address, the name, the gender …anything you want !



So, to protect yourself or your childrens from online predators, make sure that your profile is not available for public view. Using a simple configuration setting in MySpace.com, you can have a control on “Who views your profile”!

A live site phishing demo. The target is a small Federal Credit Union in Hawaii. The fake website was asked to be taken down by the author after this demo. The author compares the two websites and finds out that the original website has been registered since 1995 and the fake website was registered just 2 days before launching the phishing attack. The look and feel of the site is the same as the original one. Only minor difference (which can easily be overlooked) is an extra alphabet “i” in the url. The original website is http://hawaiiusafcu.com/ and the fake one has the url http://hawaiusafcu.org/

This video shows a live phishing website. The author has captured teh screenshots of the website before requesting it to be taken down. For more details visit http://www.lexcyber.com/video-news/fighting-cyber-crime/paypal-phishing-451-34.html

Excellent videos discussing various aspects of online scams, viruses and spams. For a detailed description of the video visit http://www.lexcyber.com/video-news/cyber-crimes/various-aspects-of-crimeware-215-28.html

Infective banner ads are not new, but it’s not so common for them to come with major websites like mlb.com and nhl.com. This video shows how easily even major websites can become victims too, and how difficult it is for them to prevent it.