Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Company Complaint Notification Email Messages on January 31, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 32646 First Published: 2014 January 31 21:36 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a company complaint notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Service Complaint Email Messages on December 22, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 32267 First Published: 2013 December 23 15:13 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a customer complaint notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

FBI Warning Users About Financial Malware Beta Bot

The FBI began warning computer users about the Beta Bot Trojan this week, sounding the alarm about malware that has targeted a variety of online payment platforms and financial institutions over the few last months. According to an intelligence note prepared by the Internet Crime Complaint Center...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Business Complaint Email Messages on September 6, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30675 First Published: 2013 September 6 16:23 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a company compliant notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Business Complaint Notification Email Messages on January 28, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 30178 First Published: 2013 July 23 15:38 GMT Last Updated: 2014 January 29 13:51 GMT Version: 25 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 ema...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Business Complaint Notification Email Messages on July 22, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30172 First Published: 2013 July 22 19:09 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a business complaint notification from the Internal Revenue Service for the recipient. The text in the email...

Privacy Advocates File Complaint Over Jay-Z's 'MCHG' App,

Privacy advocates called out rapper/entrepreneur Jay-Z this week, filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over an app he released earlier this month that many critics feel goes overboard in the amount of the information it requests from users. Citing “deceptive business practices,”...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Fraud Complaint Information Email Messages on July 3, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29937 First Published: 2013 July 3 14:41 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a complaint case claim notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Customer Complaint Attachment Email Messages on December 3, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29685 First Published: 2013 June 18 14:32 GMT Last Updated: 2013 December 4 16:18 GMT Version: 14 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a customer complaint notification from Dun & Bradstreet for the recipien...

Arrested 'Happy Hacker' is the ZeuS Botnet Mastermind

Last week, Happy Hacker arrested in Thailand on charges of stealing millions from online bank accounts. According to new reports same hacker alleged as ZeuS Mastermind and used to have the profile of a miscreant nicknamed "bx1," a hacker fingered by Microsoft before as a major operator of botnets...

Toyota Employee Allegedly Hacked, Stole Confidential Information

Investigation is now underway into whether a computer programmer allegedly stole proprietary information from the automaker Toyota and “sabotaged” the company’s supplier computer network after being terminated last week. According to a complaint filed late last week .PDF in the U.S. District Cour...

FTC Sues Wyndham Over Breaches Linked to $10m In Fraud

UPDATE: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined Wyndham Hotels for a string of data breaches that resulted in information on hundreds of thousands of customers being lost to cyber criminals. An FTC complaint, filed on June 26, 2012, asks for “permanent injunctive relief” against Wyndham for...

New Jersey mayor arrested for hacking recall website

New Jersey mayor arrested for hacking recall website The FBI last week arrested the mayor of the northern New Jersey town of West New York, together with his son, on charges of hacking into a website and a related email account that called for the mayor's recall. Felix Roque, 55, the mayor of Wes...

FBI track Anonymous hacker using his girlfriend's boobs

FBI track Anonymous hacker using his girlfriend's boobs The FBI swooped on Higinio O Ochoa III after he posted the snap, which included a gloating message to his online victims.He took the picture on his iPhone and posted it on Twitter without realising it contained GPS data pointing directly to...

How The Free Market Fails Privacy-Conscious Consumers

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part podcast with security researcher Chris Soghoian. It’s a truism that the pace of technological change outstrips society’s ability to grasp the impact of that change. For the most part, the consequences of this are benign and the remedies...

Fortune Favors the Bold? Man Steals Microsoft Founder's Identity, Credit Card

When one Pennsylvanian man couldn’t foot his bills, he opted to steal the identity of someone that could – one of the world’s richest men, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen. An AWOL solider from Pittsburgh swiped Allen’s Citibank credit card account information earlier this year to...

Japan orders Google to remove auto-complete function over privacy complaint

Japan orders Google to remove auto-complete function over privacy complaint Google has been ordered to disable part of its autocomplete function in Japan after complaints it violates privacy. According to a report by The Japan Times, the court was acting on a petition accusing Google's autocomple...

Microsoft Adds Kelihos Botnet Operator To Civil Complaint

A Russian man was added to the list of defendants in a civil complaint filed by Microsoft at the operators of the Kelihos botnet. In an amended complaint filed in U.S. District Court on Monday, the company said that Andrey Sabelnikov controlled Kelihos using 21 Internet domains bought from a...

Facebook Fixes Complaint Feature Abused To Bypass Photo Privacy, Zuckerberg Among Victims

Facebook has fixed a critical flaw in a user feedback feature that allowed any user to access private photos posted in other users accounts. Before it was fixed, the flaw was used to hack the account of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and post photos online. The social network responded quickly afte...

Dropbox potential security flaw revealed, could be exploited by hackers !

It seems that information which Dropbox, the popular web-based file-sharing site/service, issued in response to a US Federal Trade Commission complaint, has revealed a potential security flaw that, according to Ray Bryant, CEO of Idappcom, could be exploited by hackers. According to Bryant, after...