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Stormy weather could be on the horizon for cloud computing as security experts warn not enough is being done to make sure one of the hottest IT trends is safe.
“There are many motivations for why an individual or a company would want to engage in cloud computing,” said Thomas Parenty, managing director of Parenty Consulting, [...] Read more »

Posted on April 26th, 2010 under Consumer Cyber Alert, Cyber Security, Email, Facebook, Security News, Twitter. Tags: Ceos, cloud computing, Cyber Cafes, Email Account, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Google Docs, Managing Director, Mobile Devices, Motivations, outsourcing data, Security Concerns, Security Threats, Social Networking Site. Comments: None

pril Fool’s Day pranks are commonplace on the internet, but most rarely cause much damage. That is, unless a cyber criminal is the prankster. According to BenchMarkReview.com, April Fool’s Day is annually one of the worst days of the year for web security as cyber criminals use the pranking tradition to distribute malware.
Web security professionals [...] Read more »

Posted on March 31st, 2010 under Attacks, Consumer Cyber Alert, Email, Facebook, Twitter. Tags: April 1, April Fool, Cyber Criminal, Cyber Criminals, Email Filters, Pranks, Prankster, Scams, Security Social, Spam Message, Web Security. Comments: None

A Pacific Northwest developer of latest anti-spyware solutions, SUPERAntiSpyware.com, has noted that every year there is a surge in incidents of new spyware infection in the initial week of April, which has now become more-or-less an annual tradition that aggravates the problems for computer users, increases expenses and decreases productivity, thereby causing an overall inconvenience. [...] Read more »

Posted on March 31st, 2010 under Attacks, Consumer Cyber Alert, Email, Facebook, Spam, Twitter, Virus & Malware. Tags: April 1, April Fools Day, Computer Users, Facebook, Google, Internet Security Experts, Mail Message, Malware, Security Firms, Spam, Superantispyware. Comments: None

Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social-media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks.
The company will route all links submitted to the site through a filter created to catch links that lead to malware, the company said on the Twitter blog [...] Read more »

Posted on March 24th, 2010 under Email, Phishing, Twitter. Tags: Filtering Service, Login Credentials, Mail Notifications, Phishing, Phishing Scams, Security, twitter. Comments: None

“Bomb Blast.” “Jackson is still alive: proof.” “Obama cursed by Pope.” These are just a few of the subjects used by cybercriminals last year to trick people into opening malware-infected e-mails.

Spam that uses the latest news headlines was just one of the hot trends last year in the world of cybercrime, according to McAfee’s “Q4 [...] Read more »

Posted on March 22nd, 2010 under Consumer Cyber Alert, Email, Internet Fraud, Twitter. Tags: Cyber Army, Cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Daily Volume, Hacktivism, Junk Mail, Spam Email, Threat Assessment, twitter. Comments: None

IT security and control firm Sophos is again calling on Twitter to enforce the use of strong passwords by its members following reports that another celebrity account has been hacked. This time the victim is Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus, daughter of ‘Achy breaky heart’ legend Billy Ray Cyrus.
Last year Cyrus was the subject of [...] Read more »

Posted on February 28th, 2010 under Attacks, News From The Cyber Front, Twitter, Virus & Malware. Tags: Candid Photographs, Computer Craze, Cybercriminals, Defacement, Email, Fraudsters, Malware Threats, Miley Cyrus, Offensive Messages, Password Security, Senior Technology, Sophos, twitter. Comments: None