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Security alert -- PayPal and Citibank



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A new e-mail worm is spreading on the Internet and posing as a 
message from PayPal, the online payment company, in an effort to 
harvest credit card numbers and account passwords.

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1114phishandb.html?nl

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A trojan horse arrives as an attachment to an
e-mail that appears to be from Citibank.  Once activated, the trojan
allows attackers to use infected computers as a conduit to conduct
activity on the Internet, which would be traced back to the infected
computer rather than to the perpetrator.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39117827,00.htm

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- Mark