Tag Archives: anti phishing

Malware developers seem to appreciate a little humor when it comes to naming their schemes. One of the latest email scams to invade inboxes everywhere is no exception, it seems, and the FBI has been quick to let businesses know …

This past holiday season showed that spending in brick and mortar stores was significantly off targeted projects. People just weren’t spending as much money in the malls and department stores. However every single study of consumer spending did show that …

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 …

The year’s off to a rousing start, with all sorts of interesting security news this week: Wikipedia led a temporarily successful foray against SOPA and PIPA by joining numerous websites that went dark for a day; the founder of Megaupload …

This week, a phishing attack landed in the inboxes of several US government agencies, spoofing the US government’s cyber security watchdog and response agency. Complete with attachments, the e-mail’s payload was a nasty little virus that has already been tracked …

In Part 2 of our look at what you can expect in the coming year, faint rumblings out of Japan suggest that one prediction from Part 1 of this article has already come true. If the very real prospect of …

In a turn of events appropriate for the most tumultuous year in cybercrime, 2011’s body is barely cold and we’re already smelling something suspicious from its decomposing carcass. Rumors of two worms, one well-known and the other relatively new on …

Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype has not only brought new attention to one of the most popular messaging platforms on the Internet, it has also brought about a resurgence of spam directed at users of the service. Skype spam, or skam …

It’s Christmas time, there’s no need to be afraid, at Christmas time, we let in light and we banish just a little bit of the seriousness most of the articles on spam and phishing tend to exhibit, and instead we …

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and what better way to take a look back at the year in spam than poke a little fun at the moronic state of the crap that invades our inboxes? In a …