Tag Archives: cybercrime

John Leydon over at The Register posted an interesting article recently. It seems that botnet herders have learned how to avoid honeypots. Honeypots are the name given to traps set by security firms-groups of unprotected computers designed to lure botnets …

The second man involved in a series of computer attacks on local ISPs back in 2006 is set to plead guilty. Thomas James Frederick Smith will plead guilty in a Dallas courtroom next month. He and partner David Edwards are …

The hacker responsible for the largest data breach in U.S. history was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his crimes. Albert Gonzalez hacked into Heartland Payment Systems computer network and stole tens of millions of credit card and debit …

It has been a big year for the internet with social networks continuing to grow at an amazing pace, search engines scrambling to keep pace with user demand for fresh news, and as always spam and malware causing havoc around …

A security researcher recently discovered a new malware attack that has poisoned nearly 300,000 websites. The SQL attacks began last month and use a hidden iframe to redirect visitors to a malicious site that is programmed to look for and …

The FBI has issued a warning about a new phishing attack targeting PR firms and lawyers. The messages contain business specific subject lines designed to trick the recipient into thinking it is a legit message. The body of the message …

I came across an article today written last week that proclaimed “We won the war on spam”.  The general thrust of the article is that “despite continued hysteria, unwanted e-mail is largely a thing of the past”. This is an …

Last week, a Wall Street Journal article entitled “The fallacy of identity theft” may have given some people the mistaken impression that there’s nothing to worry about, and that everyone’s identities are safe. Unfortunately, however, that’s not quite the case, and …

A recently discovered Trojan has a sneaky and disturbing new trick up its sleeve. It can alter a victim’s online bank statement. Dubbed URLZone, the Trojan is able to alter HTML coding before it’s displayed. This lets it rewrite bank …

A new spam campaign is targeting Outlook Web Access users with the goal of distributing a nasty Trojan.  The messages are slick and professional-looking and tell the recipient that they need to update their mail settings by clicking on the …