The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
I recently received two Facebook e-mail notifications that set my security spider-sense tingling. Nothing was obviously wrong with the e-mail messages, which said that my friend had tagged a photo of me and then commented on it. But something about a reference to an app named “Who stalks into your profile” just didn’t feel right.
So [...] Read more »
Cybercriminals have been busy this week running scams that target Facebook users, college basketball fans, and celebrity gossip watchers. Security experts are warning about recent attacks with nasty payloads.
One widespread attack was a common ploy security researchers call the Facebook Password Reset Scam. The cybercriminals send an e-mail addressed to “user of Facebook” that reads, [...] Read more »
For the first time security researchers have spotted a type of malicious software that overwrites update functions for other applications, which could pose additional long-term risks for users.
The malware, which infects Windows computers, masks itself as an updater for Adobe Systems’ products and other software such as Java, wrote Nguyen Cong Cuong, an analyst with [...] Read more »
A malware attack dressed up as an e-mail from organizers of the upcoming Shanghai World Expo targeted at least three foreign journalists in China, in the latest sign of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks from the country.
The e-mail appeared to be sent from the inbox of the Expo news office, but it was not sent by the [...] Read more »
Online fraud in the United States doubled to a reported $560 million in losses last year as illicit phishing expeditions by thieves posing as the Federal Bureau of Investigation represented the biggest consumer complaint, according to a Friday government survey.
The e-mail phishing scams represented 16.6 percent of all complaints. The next closest category, at 12 [...] Read more »
Criminal gangs have been cashing in on the Haiti earthquake by seeking funds for bogus charities via millions of spam e-mails, a BBC investigation has learned.
The Haiti earthquake led to millions of pounds being raised to help people with next to nothing who, literally overnight, found they had even less.
But alongside genuine appeals and donations, [...] Read more »
WhitePages.com has stopped ad networks from delivering ads to its site after they were found to contain fake antivirus malware.
“On Monday morning WhitePages received reports from users [about] malware in the form of a fake antivirus upsell program that we believe originated (against our terms) from a third-party advertising network serving ads on our website, [...] Read more »
WASHINGTON – The Senate has condemned cyber attacks against Google in China.
A resolution approved by senators urges China to investigate and explain the e-mail attacks. It also describes ways that lawmakers say China restricts freedom of the press and free expression on the Internet.
Google has said it might pull out of China over censorship and [...] Read more »
Two Iranian opposition Web sites were hacked into by a group calling itself the Iran Cyber Army, one day after tight security stopped opponents of the government demonstrating on the anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
The image of the Iranian flag hanging from an AK-47 rifle replaced the front pages of the kaleme.org Web site of [...] Read more »
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