Neowin News Feed for: Bogus

Google, Mail.ru and Yahoo claim that more than 98% of the leaked credentials were bogus

Usama Jawad — Sat, 07 May 2016 10:52:01 +0000

Various email providers who were allegedly affected by a data breach that was supposed to have exposed over 272 million account credentials now claim that over 98% of these were bogus. Read more...

Symantec sends bogus warning of full-scale Internet meltdown

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:27:38 +0000

On Friday at around 8:40 p.m. EDT, Symantec Corporation sent an e-mail with the subject "DeepSight Increased ThreatCon from 1 to 4 Alert" to enterprise customers of Symantec's DeepSight advanced alert system. ThreatCon uses a... Read more...

Trojan Emits Bogus, Risqué Google AdSense Ads

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:55:12 +0000

A Trojan horse program is churning out bogus Google ads promoting products Google eschews—gambling, cheap Viagra, girlie photos and adult dating. The ads, being targeted at small publishers, are identical to Google AdSense ads except... Read more...

Bogus anti-spyware tool dubbed "Ransom-ware"

Tue, 31 May 2005 23:26:19 +0000

"Ransom-ware" is relatively new term that Panda Antivirus researchers have dubbed for a new form of malicious code that infects PCs, and then demands money in return for cleaning up the machine. "This is just... Read more...

Microsoft Ads Called Bogus

Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:51:32 +0000

Open-source advocates are crying foul over a new ad campaign from Microsoft that claims that Windows-based systems cost less in the long run than Linux-based systems. Ads for the campaign, which were unveiled... Read more...

Beware the bogus domain sellers

Sat, 23 Feb 2002 04:03:49 +0000

Punters are warned to be on their guard against dodgy domain name sales tactics. Some unscrupulous sales people are calling up companies and individuals whose domains names are nearing renewal and trying... Read more...