FBI Releases Article on Romance Scams

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article addressing the rise of Internet romance scams. In this common type of fraud, cyber criminals target victims, gain their confidence, and trick them into sending money. To stay safer online, review the FBI article on Romance Scams and...

IC3 Warns of Employment Scams Targeting College Students

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert on employment scams targeting college students. Phony job opportunities are advertised via college employment websites or students’ university emails. Unfortunately, students who take the bait suffer financial losses. US-CERT encourages...

FTC: D-Link Failed to Secure Routers, IP Cameras

The Federal Trade Commission acknowledged on Thursday that it takes the security of the so-called internet of things seriously when it leveraged a complaint against one of the more popular router manufacturers. The lawsuit, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California,...

US-CERT Alerts Users to Holiday Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

US-CERT reminds users to remain vigilant when browsing or shopping online this holiday season. Ecards from unknown senders may contain malicious links. Fake advertisements or shipping notifications may deliver infected attachments. Spoofed email messages and fraudulent posts on social networking...

Privacy Groups File FTC Complaint over WhatsApp Data Sharing with Facebook

Alleging a trail of broken promises, two privacy-focused advocacy groups yesterday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against a recent WhatsApp privacy policy change that states it will begin sharing user data with parent company Facebook. The Electronic Privacy Information Cente...

pissedconsumer.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.pissedconsumer.com/post-complaint.html Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 12274 Google Pagerank| 4 VIP website status:| Yes Check pissedconsumer.com SSL connection:| Grade:...

FTC Announces Enhancements to IdentityTheft.gov

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has upgraded its IdentityTheft.gov site to provide improved help to victims of identity theft. Enhancements include more personalized response plans for consumers, automatic generation of documents to aid in recovery, and better integration of the site with the...

191 Million US Voters' Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database

BREAKING: A misconfigured database has resulted in the exposure of around 191 Million voter records including voters' full names, their home addresses, unique voter IDs, date of births and phone numbers. The database was discovered on December 20th by Chris Vickery, a white hat hacker, who was ab...

US-CERT Alerts Users to Holiday Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

US-CERT reminds users to remain vigilant when browsing or shopping online this holiday season. Ecards from unknown senders may contain malicious links. Fake advertisements or shipping notifications may deliver infected attachments. Spoofed email messages and fraudulent posts on social networking...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID18590: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on October 9, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 41465 First Published: 2015 October 9 15:23 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID18590 may contain the following files: Name |...

IC3 Issues Alert on Gift Card Scams

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has released an alert warning consumers of fraud around the resale of gift cards. The secondary gift card market has grown in recent years, and criminal activity has been identified on sites facilitating such exchanges. When purchasing gift cards, look for...

KickAss Torrent Download Website Seized

So far, the torrent users didn’t forget the incident of The Pirate Bay seizer, that another most popular Torrent website, KickAss Torrents, has been kicked off by the Somalian registry. KickAss Torrent download website has lost access to its Kickass.so - the Somalian domain with millions of uniqu...

US-CERT Alerts Users to Holiday Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

US-CERT reminds users to remain vigilant when browsing online this holiday season. E-cards from unknown senders may contain malicious links. Fake advertisements or shipping notifications may deliver infected attachments. Spoofed e-mail messages and fraudulent posts on social networking sites may...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID11806: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on October 1, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 35904 First Published: 2014 October 2 16:11 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID11806 may contain the following files: Name |...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Business Complaint Notification Email Messages on May 19, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 34193 First Published: 2014 May 12 18:36 GMT Last Updated: 2014 May 20 13:44 GMT Version: 2 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a business complaint notification for the recipient. The text in the email...

Malicious iOS Tor Browser in Apple App Store

An iOS Tor Browser hosted for download on Apple’s notoriously restrictive App Store is reportedly a fake. Worse yet, not only is the application said to be illegitimate, but also allegedly malicious. According to a support ticket opened by a Tor Project volunteer operating under the handle Phobos...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Business Complaint Notification Email Messages on March 11, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 33272 First Published: 2014 March 11 17:03 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a complaint notification from the Better Business Bureau for the recipient. The text in the email message attemp...

Privacy Groups Seek to Halt Facebook Acquisition of WhatsApp

The appeal of WhatsApp, the cross-platform mobile messaging app recently acquired by Facebook for a stunning $19 billion price tag, was that it kept to its promise of not collecting user information that would be converted to ad revenue. The acquisition by Facebook, however, likely changes that...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Police Complaint Notification Email Messages on February 12, 2014.

Medium Alert ID: 32849 First Published: 2014 February 13 14:38 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain a police complaint for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince...

'Chaos Computer Club' filed criminal complaint against German government Over Mass Spying

After the revelation of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, we all very well knew the impact of it on the world, but nobody would have estimated that the impact will be so worst. The revelation, not only defaced NSA, but also its counterpart GCHQ, and various other governments which were servin...