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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 …

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 …

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 …

Most adults are well aware of spam. Having encountered email spam since the early days, it is safe to say that many people over the age of 20 have at one time or another been educated, trained or have experience …

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 …

As the years pass, we often identify them with significant changes or events that occur of their span. Optimists often look for the most positive events over the year to attach to the label, The Year of…, realists however, take …

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 …

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 …