How to Keep Your Credentials SaveFebruary 4th, 2010
Five years ago such financial crimes like trading of credit card details was an increasing problem for the finance industry and its loyal customers. Those who were pleased to have platinum or corporate cards were unpleasantly surprised when their money was stolen unexpectedly.
However, today cyber criminals rapidly change their tactics and have even started to charge each other for the user credentials at the moment. More on How to Keep Your Credentials Save.
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StopBadware is Fighting Against Cyber Criminals as a Non-Profit OrganizationJanuary 26th, 2010
StopBadware has started to work as a non-profit organization. Google, Mozilla and PayPal are the first companies to supply money for this project.
4 years ago StopBadware existed as Berkman Center project which was established to fight against malicious software like viruses or spyware. More on StopBadware is Fighting Against Cyber Criminals as a Non-Profit Organization.
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The Most Successful Period for Cyber CriminalsJanuary 19th, 2010
It’s not a surprise that all the cyber criminals use holidays or other special occasions to increase the distribution of their threats. When the biggest holiday of the year is over, spammers are looking forward to the future events and plan their attacks worldwide. Such happenings like Valentine’s Day or FIFA World Cup are those that PC users should note as the next waves of online robberies. More on The Most Successful Period for Cyber Criminals.
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Don’t Make Online Donations to ScammersJanuary 16th, 2010
Be careful when giving your donation to the victims of the Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti causing an unknown number of deaths and other damage to the country. The U. S. More on Don’t Make Online Donations to Scammers.
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Attention! Don’t Sign Any Petition Against Payments on Facebook!January 13th, 2010
Facebook has become very popular these days and more that 350 millions of users’ all over the world can hardly imagine their lives without checking what’s new on it. However, not only PC users are attracted by this website. Scammers producing messages about new monthly charges for Facebook content and later redirecting their victims into malicious websites have also started joining this community, so be aware!
On Facebook scammers work by inviting people to join several groups created by them. More on Attention! Don’t Sign Any Petition Against Payments on Facebook!.
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Rogue security applications impersonate leading anti-virus manufacturersAugust 7th, 2009
It has become usual thing that rogue security applications impersonate reputable and legitimate anti-virus programs. Most of the time, cyber-thieves and developers of rogue anti-virus programs use well known logos, images, color combinations and graphical elements to make their bogus applications look more professional and reliable. If you take a look at rogue anti-spyware programs PC Antispyware 2010 or Personal Antivirus which appeared in March, you will quickly notice that both programs use Microsoft icons, colors and graphical elements including legitimately looking alerts and notifications. More on Rogue security applications impersonate leading anti-virus manufacturers.
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Attack of Waledac Worm is schedulled on July 4July 3rd, 2009
On Thursday, security researchers reported a warning about The Waledac worm which is about to gear up a scam campaign related to the July 4 holiday.
As antivirus vendor ESET senior researcher Pierre-Marc Bureau revealed, the worm, which is known to bloom out updates to previously compromised computers, was discovered to register at least 18 domain names related to fireworks and Independence Day. It is supposed to trick people into visiting a malicious Web site all the weekend. More on Attack of Waledac Worm is schedulled on July 4.
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Another Parasite Attack Spreads Via TwitterJune 29th, 2009
Guy Kawasaki is a venture capitalist of a Silicon Valley, who was partially responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984. He has almost 140,000 Twitter followers who were surprised that Kawasaki suddenly started making good money from porn, when a link belonging to host a pornographic video of "Gossip Girl" star Leighton Meester appeared on June 23.
Sophos, anti-virus organization, posted a YouTube video which showed that all followers who downloaded the link discovered a virus that damaged both PCs and Macs. More on Another Parasite Attack Spreads Via Twitter.
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Free security product vets Twitter linksJune 26th, 2009
Security software, called SecureTwitter, is the latest browser add-on released by Finjan. Because Twitter became more and more popular by computer hackers, this product was created to scan links and warn if they follow a rogue page.
The SecureTwitter contains plug-ins for both the Firefox and Internet Explorer and the purpose of this software is to warn users about rogue links posted by other users on this exchange service. More on Free security product vets Twitter links.
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Mac trojan targets game sites to infect usersJune 25th, 2009
Mac users should pay their attention to a new parasite. New version of Mac trojan virus is known for changing PC’s DNS settings. Intego, which is responsible for Mac security, announced to find the RSPlug Trojan on websites, offering legal games for users. More on Mac trojan targets game sites to infect users.
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