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CIA Director Warns of Terror Threat, Fraudulent E-Mails Get Credit Card Numbers, Mysterious Pop-Up Ads Plague Users

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Oct 18, 20021 min
CSO and CISOData and Information Security

CIA Director Warns of Terror Threat

CIA Director George Tenet told Congress that the escalation of terrorist attacks abroad suggests that similar attacks may be planned for targets in the United States, according to an article in the Washington Post. The Post reports that Tenet claimed that administration officials had taken action in the sectors they were most concerned about.

Fraudulent E-mail Gets Credit Card Numbers

Yahoo has reported that some customers gave their credit card numbers to a bogus third party masquerading as Yahoo, according to an article in DigitalMASS. The article reported that Yahoo advised customers of the fraud within 24 hours.

Mysterious Pop-Up Ads Plague Users

A new type of pop-up ads called “Messenger spams” is appearing mysteriously on computers running Microsoft Windows, according to an article in Wired News. The article reports that the ads are delivered through backdoor networking, rather than e-mail or Web browsing.