Author Archives: Sue Walsh

A new open source toolkit is designed to provide a way for companies to educate their employees on how to spot phishing scams, but it may give scammers a lot of help as well. The open source Simple Phishing Toolkit …

Several new phishing campaigns have been spotted in the wild. The first one is a new incarnation of an old scam. Emails that look like they’ve come from your friends arrive with an urgent message about them being on a trip to …

A new spam campaign is brand jacking popular social networking site LinkedIn to spreadlinks leading to shady domains. The emails, which look like notifications from the site telling the recipient they have a message waiting, contain links that allegedly lead …

Early Monday morning I received an email from Zappos, the popular online retailer.  Theemail informed me that they had been hacked and my personal info, along with that of 24 million other customers, had been compromised: First, the bad news: …

An open redirect vulnerability has been found on both Facebook and Google. This could easily be used to redirect users to a phishing page or a malicious domain. In a phishing attack, users wouldn’t even realize they’d been redirect, they’d just …

When the North Carolina Department of Parks and Recreation sent out an email to its mailing list, the employee responsible for writing the message, which wished recipients a happy holiday season and reminded them of the services the department offers,  made …

Six Nigerian men have been arrested in connection with an international phishing ring that used a variation of the infamous 419 or Nigerian scam to dupe unsuspecting victims. They would send their victims text messages informing them they had won a lottery …

Here are some commandments to follow to help keep 2012 a spam free year!  Many are simply common sense, but all of them will help reduce the amount of spam that hits your inbox and social media accounts. 1. Thou shall …

2011 is coming to a close and that means it’s time to make resolutions for 2012. Here’s a look at what types of resolutions spammers might be making for the new year. Although overall spam volumes dropped this year, there’s really …

A new spam campaign is using fake pizza order confirmations to distribute malware. The message informs the recipient that their order has been received and gives them the option to either pay for it, to the tune of $100 or so, …