Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Google, Facebook fight phishing with new specification Internet giants out to banish bogus email
Monday, January 09, 2012
Rickroll emails didn't come from me, Stratfor CEO Stratfor customers receive phishing emails sent in the company's CEO name following data breach
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Romance scams pick on divorced, lovelorn Research out of the UK today says that perhaps as many as 200,00 people have been victims of online romance scams and the same study says over 1 million people personally know someone who has been scammed by one of these heartless fraudsters.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Law enforcement push for stricter domain name rules The U.S. FBI and Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency have submitted a set of recommended rules for Internet registrars to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The move stems not only from trademark disputes and cybersquatting but also concern over phishing and botnets.
Friday, February 26, 2010
SQL Injection, Active X on decline: IBM X-Force report IBM’s X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk report shows a drop in some popular attacks, and a 345 per cent rise in others like new malicious Web links. Security consultant Brian O’Higgins said social engineering continues to be a useful tool for malware authors
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Attackers going after end users rather than servers The Web traffic study also finds issues with botnets, corporate policies, Adobe Systems Inc.’s Acrobat reader and JavaScript. ZScaler found significant use of Internet Explorer 6, which unlike later versions of Microsoft Corp.’s browser does not maintain malicious URL and phishing block lists. Just what exactly is a darknet?
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Mobile malware will test Android and iPhone A closed application market is not the best way to guard against mobile security threats. How Apple Inc. and Google Inc. differ in their respective approaches to iPhone and Android software development
Friday, November 20, 2009
Security pro says new SSL attack can hit many sites Leviathan Security Group has developed generic attack code using the Authentication Gap bug, but launching an attack is very difficult and first requires a man-in-the-middle attack
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Yahoo, Gmail, AOL users also victims of giant fake shopping scam A massive phishing attack, which originally hit Hotmail, has also affected Gmail, Yahoo and AOL users...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Scammers exploit hijacked Hotmail passwords Don’t touch that e-mail you got offering a new MacBook Pro for a mere $700. It’s all part of scam working off stolen Hotmail passwords...
Friday, August 07, 2009
Why were Twitter and Facebook attacked? Was it jealous IRC users? A botnet vigilante? A grudge against a political blogger? Experts float their theories on the motivation behind the DDoS attack 
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Watch out for 'Best Video' scam on Twitter The scareware infection is said to be the first instance of hackers using Twitter for profit
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Malware economy on the rise Based on a steady flow of reports on a vast variety of data security threats during the first half of 2007, security firm F-Secure Lab says the bad guys are winning.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Tool lets management put a cap on Internet, IM use A vendor that makes software to protect children from online predators has developed a product for small and midsize businesses that lets management monitor and restrict employee use of instant messaging and the Internet. 
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Collusion confounded - malware mafia join forces to intensify Internet attacks Creators of malware – worms, trojan horses, spyware, adware – are teaming up in the underground to propagate Internet threats at an even faster rate, according to a Canadian researcher
Sunday, March 18, 2007
IRS warns of cybersquatters during tax season The U.S. tax collecting department is warning taxpayers that the only URL for their Internal Revenue Service is IRS.gov. The IRS posted a note on its Web site last week alerting taxpayers of tax season scams and that Web sites like IRS.com are not affiliated with the U.S. government.![Ho, ho, no! – Some reasons not to deck the [office] halls](/Files/Images/100809_thumb_d.jpg "Ho, ho, no! – Some reasons not to deck the [office] halls")
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Ho, ho, no! – Some reasons not to deck the [office] halls For the love of St. Nicholas, do not let anyone hang holiday decorations willy-nilly about the workplace lest you render the office Wi-Fi net as discombobulated as Santa's sleigh without Rudolph. 
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Online banking fraud dramatically jumps in UK U.K. banks reported a 55 per cent increase in losses from fraudulent online transactions for the first half of the year, mostly from phishing scams, an industry trade group reported Tuesday. 
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Geek speak driving new spam wave, says report MessageLabs' September intelligence report has highlighted "geek speak" as the new wave of social engineering techniques being used to send spam.
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Internet fraudsters enjoy boom in UK Internet fraudsters have had another good year, according to the U.K.’s Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS). The banking organization's latest annual figures show that card not present (CNP) fraud in the country has risen by 29 percent compared to 2004, reaching £90.6 million (US$175 million) in the six months to June this year. Of that, fraud specific to Internet transactions has risen by five percent, to £58 million. 
Monday, September 26, 2005
Sophisticated phishing targets Yahoo users A new phishing method is targeting users of Yahoo Inc. by recording their user name and password while logging them into a legitimate area of the portal, according to Websense Inc., a Web security software firm.
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Katrina aftermath: Beware of e-looters Looters are going outside the streets of New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina's hardest-hit US city, and setting up shop on the Internet where potential prey abounds. E-looters are using known methods such as phishing and spam e-mail, but hiding them under Katrina's cloak to rip off unsuspecting victims.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
AOL aims to secure surfing with new Netscape browser America Online Inc. (AOL) on Feb. 17 plans to release the first public test version of a new Netscape browser that is designed to protect users from scams and malicious code while surfing the Web. With the release, AOL is taking aim at Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser, which has been the subject of many security vulnerabilities. Also, AOL is looking to piggyback on the popularity of Firefox, the open source Web browser that was released in November and has since been downloaded nearly 22 million times. 
Sunday, October 31, 2004
Companies combat phishing scams The potential erosion of consumer confidence in the online transaction process and the cost to companies resulting from phishing scams has triggered a multifaceted response from some organizations.