By John Leyden
The Register
25th February 2009

Gmail users, still swooning from the extended outage on Tuesday, were hit with a widespread phishing attack hours after the blackout.

The malicious message spread via the Google Talk instant messaging chat system, urging users to a video by clicking on a link connected via the TinyURL service. The link points to a website called ViddyHo, which invited users to submit their Gmail usernames and passwords.

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By JEFF OVERLEY
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
LINK: Personal information belongs to scores of Seaview Financial customers

NEWPORT BEACH – Folders with personal information for numerous clients of a local mortgage broker sat for days at a public recycling site, overflowing from the tops of several bins in an apparently glaring identity theft risk.

The files contained bank account statements, completed tax forms, credit reports and Social Security numbers, among other information, and most if not all had one broker in common – Seaview Financial of Corona del Mar.

Seaview’s offices were vacant Monday; it moved out of its East Coast Highway office building last week, according to tenants and the property owner.

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Police seem to have arrested the first suspects in the Hartland Payment Systems hack.

By John Leyden
The Register

Phishing fraudsters have moved on from banking sites with an attack designed to hoodwink hotel customers, according to a team of security volunteers.

Hotel chains including Hyatt, TraveLodge, Comfort Inn, Ramada, Days Inn, and Wyndham are being targeted in the reported scam. More than 71,000 travelers each month have been redirected to counterfeit sites, volunteer security community FraudTip.com warns (»www.prweb.com/releases/hotel/fra···4834.htm). Mainstream net security firms are unable to confirm these figures.

More: Counterfeit site ruse proves hard to pin down