We report on the latest trends in cybercrime to help you stay informed and aware of what the current threat landscape looks like.
The fake cashier's check scam has gotten more sophisticated. Cathy Bussewitz at the pressdemocrat site reported on this one: "It usually starts when a seller posts a big-ticket item on ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="LeakedIn"][/caption] Never 'check' your password. Change it! The last few weeks, it came to light that some major websites were ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Tracy Kitten"][/caption]It's not all bad news! Tracy Kitten over at BankInfoSecurity reported on a positive trend. "Banks are doing a ...
Samantha Murphy at Mashable wrote: "Shred-It conducted a survey among 1,136 U.S. small business owners with companies of fewer than 100 employees, and 100 corporate-level executives who ...
Foxnews reported on June 15, 2012: "Cyberbombs are the new atom bombs." "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned Friday that the race to build and deploy cyberweapons -- secret ...
The cyberweapon genie is out of the bottle, and the U.S. is engaged in a cyberwar. Now it becomes clear why the Government has been trying to get private industry to agree to certain ...
The Guardian reported that Google will warn users of 'state-sponsored' hacking: "Search giant says it will alert Gmail users about targeted attacks, in move that could aid human rights ...
LinkedIn was hacked and 6.46 million encrypted passwords have been leaked on a Russian forum. This is not good, as the encrypted passwords are relatively easy to crack. If you are using ...
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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Norton Protects Against Flame?"][/caption] The antivirus industry is making hay with the new Flame malware, but Symantec marketing is ...
Hackers will find any mail server that is not protected and/or configured correctly and use it to send out as much spam as possible. This gets the unsuspecting organization blacklisted ...
Ed Bott wrote a truly excellent article over at ZDNet where he describes the history of Windows Malware, which shows on the very first slide that most malware is installed via social ...
Christopher Mims over at Technology Review was the first one to report on this. A large Gmail security hole could lead to mass harvesting of accounts, as hackers can automate this social ...
Rod Rasmussen over at SecurityWeek has a really interesting article about a Russian cyber gang driving a massive wave of fraud: "Tucked away in a small town outside Moscow, Russia one of ...
This is a discussion on Reddit, where a (presumably Polish) malware coder and botnet operator very candidly answers questions from people. This is a fascinating but rather technical read, ...
