'Good to Know' campaign : Google Collaborates with Citizens Advice Bureau for Online Safety

'Good to Know' campaign : Google Collaborates with Citizens Advice Bureau for Online Safety Google's first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau. It covers topics such as choosing a password, scam emails and using two factor...

Biggest Identity Theft Bust Ever Nets 111 In New York

Authorities in New York have arrested more than 100 people accused of participating in an identity theft scam that generated $13 million in illicit profits fore crime gains in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, according to a statement from the District Attorney for Queens County. The...

Massachusetts Attorney General, Victim of an iTunes Scam, Says She'll Demand Answers

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said on Tuesday that her office would be inquiring into long-standing complaints about fraudulent purchases that leverage Apple’s popular online music store. In a lunchtime address to business and technology leaders in Massachusetts, Coakley said she...

Automated Skype calls spreading fake anti-virus warning

Automated Skype calls spreading fake anti-virus warning Automated Skype calls spreading fake anti-virus warning, where an automated message what I like to call a "Digital Dorothy" warns you in a semi-robotic voice that your computer's security is not up-to-date. "Attention: this is an automated...

Automated Skype calls spreading fake anti-virus warning

Automated Skype calls spreading fake anti-virus warning Automated Skype calls spreading fake anti-virus warning, where an automated message what I like to call a "Digital Dorothy" warns you in a semi-robotic voice that your computer's security is not up-to-date. "Attention: this is an automated...

Trojan Makes Child-Porn Accusation, Locks Computer, Requests $17

A new ransomware scam locks down its victims’ computers, attempting to convince them that child pornography has been found therein, and informs users that their machine will be unlocked only after paying a $17 500 ruble fine, according to a BitDefender analysis reported by MalwareCity. The trojan...

Hacking a Facebook Account using Facebook

Hacking a Facebook Account using Facebook Many of us know that phishing is also a trick to hack a facebook and session hijicking but hacker can do both at a same time. This vulnerability was happened on Facebook static FBML .Example here . Here you can get that Facebook FBML script : What user wi...

Malicious Spam Spikes to 'Epic' Level

There has been a huge spike in spam volume in the last few days, including a massive amount of malicious spam with infected attachments, and researchers say that levels of junk mail are now far higher than they were before the takedown of the notorious Spamit affiliate program last fall. Research...

How Spammy Facebook Scams Still Manage to Claim Millions of Victims

As Facebook scams continue to loom and infiltrate news feeds, web security firm Websense has conducted a study to tabulate just how far these campaigns stretch. The news isn’t encouraging, with scams on Facebook estimated to reach more than a million users in a matter of days. According to a...

Get Your New Video Codecs–and Scareware

Scareware gangs have been using pretty much the same tactics since the dawn of time. Or at least since 2005. They compromise Web sites, use them as jumping off points for pop-up boxes that aim to terrify the citizenry into thinking their PCs are infected and downloading fake security software. Bu...

Casey Anthony Confession Scam Spreading on Facebook

As much as everyone loves a good getting away with murder, “If I Did It” type story, the leaked video spreading virally on Facebook right now, which purports to be of Casey Anthony confessing to a lawyer, is a fake, according to a report from Sophos Labs. Casey Anthony was found not guilty of...

Three UK Men to Serve 13 Years for Phishing

Three individuals have been sentenced 13 years of jail time in the UK for carrying out cyberattacks on British and international banks. The men in question, Ayodeji John Kareem, 38, Vincent Alonge, 31, and Babatunde Fafore, 41, all plead guilty on July 8 to charges stemming from their arrests in...

Scareware Takedown By FBI, Int'l Authorities Results in Two Arrests

The FBI has made a major dent in the huge scareware and rogue antivirus problem that has been plaguing Internet users for years now, arresting two people and seizing dozens of computers, servers and bank accounts as part of a large-scale coordinated operation in twelve countries. The operation,...

Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia

Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia Hackers around the world are gaining more attention than usual in the last few months. Now Google has added another announcement to the pile that hundreds of Gmail accounts have been hacked recently. Now, Google affirms that the...

Gmail Phishing Attack

US-CERT is aware of public reports of a phishing attack that specifically targets US government and military officials' Gmail accounts. The attack arrives via an email sent from a spoofed address of an individual or agency known to the targeted user. The email contains a "view download" link that...

Robert X. Cringley (Security Expert) Credit Card Hacked !

Cringley's credit card was recently hacked. And if his card can be hacked, anyone's can. Like many cardholders, Cringley received a notification from his credit card company's fraud department, informing him that his card data was being used overseas, on an online dating website. A scammer used...

Updated MacDefender Malware Appears, No Longer Needs Password

There’s a newer version of the MacDefender scareware program that’s now showing up on various Web sites, and this one no longer requires a user to enter her administrator password during the installation process in order to complete the infection routine. The first variants of MacDefender began...

Mac OS X Mac Defender Malware Detection

Using the supplied credentials, Nessus has found evidence that a fake antivirus software named Mac Defender alternatively, MacDefender, MacGuard, MacProtector or MacSecurity is installed on the remote Mac OS X host. The software is typically installed by means of a phishing scam targeting Mac use...

Apple Plans Update to Address MacDefender Malware

Apple is planning to release an update specifically designed to protect users against the MacDefender malware that has been circulating for the last couple of weeks. The update for Mac OS X will automatically find and remove the malware on an infected machine and also will warn users if another...

Apple Mac Defender, MacProtector, and MacSecurity Fake Anti-Virus Software

Apple has released a security advisory related to the recent Mac fake anti-virus software. The most common names for this fake anti-virus software are MacDefender, MacProtector, and MacSecurity. This fake anti-virus software is the result of a phishing scam targeting Mac users that redirects them...