Tag Archives: Security

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Recently, I had to deal with the fact that my own email account was compromised and sending spam to everyone I had ever written and emailed to (you can read more about it here). Not a fun thing to deal …