$800,000 recovered from Business Email Compromise attack

We continue to see the damaging repercussions of business email compromise BEC impacting organisations across the US and elsewhere. The Houston Chronicle reports that law enforcement seized $800,000 from a bank account used for pillaging funds from a construction management company. The attack BE...

Big Mother is watching: What parents REALLY think about tracking their kids

Every year on Data Privacy Day, we’re greeted with countless arguments about the absolute merits of data privacy protections good, invasions bad, but we rarely see a faithful, factual accounting for the biggest data privacy conundrum facing billions of people every single day: Should parents inva...

Cybercriminals impersonate World Health Organization to distribute fake coronavirus e-book

The number of scams, threats, and malware campaigns taking advantage of public concern over the coronavirus is increasing each day. As a result, we've been actively monitoring emails within our spam honeypot to flag such threats and make sure our users are protected. Yesterday, we observed a...

Hackers Expose Russian FSB Cyberattack Projects

More nation-state activity in cyberspace, this time from Russia: Per the different reports in Russian media, the files indicate that SyTech had worked since 2009 on a multitude of projects since 2009 for FSB unit 71330 and for fellow contractor Quantum. Projects include: Nautilus -- a project for...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Secure Message Delivery Notification Email Messages on February 5, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 32730 First Published: 2014 February 5 15:40 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a secure message for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open t...

How to Fail at Corporate Fraud

Working with forensics experts from the FBI, Ernst & Young’s Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services Practice developed a piece of linguistic, fraud-monitoring software that identified language commonly used among employees engaged in corporate malfeasance. The accounting giant plans to offer...

As Data Breaches Mount, PwnedList.com Finds A Market Identifying Victims

Pwnedlist, the Web site that compiles information on victims of data breaches, is going commercial with a plan to charge individuals for daily monitoring of their email addresses against a growing database of more-than 12 million email-login credentials. We reported on Pwnedlist.com a few months...

#THN Monthly ( February ) News Archive, If you miss Something !

THN Monthly February News Archive,If you miss Something ! Censorship - Global Concern, THN Magazine March Edition : Forget terrorists attacks here are 2012's Most Vulnerable Cities At Risk for Cyber Crime Idiots : Slum Dog India demands Real time monitoring on Indian Gmail & Yahoo Emails. Do they...

CVE-2000-0653

Microsoft Outlook Express allows remote attackers to monitor a user's email by creating a persistent browser link to the Outlook Express windows, aka the "Persistent Mail-Browser Link" vulnerability...

CVE-2000-0653

Microsoft Outlook Express allows remote attackers to monitor a user's email by creating a persistent browser link to the Outlook Express windows, aka the "Persistent Mail-Browser Link" vulnerability...