Archive for the 'Security' Category

Google Wallet is the credit card payment system that has been recently launched by Google. Based on Near Field Communication (NFC), this system is said to have some serious advantages over physical credit cards we normally use because it allows for its users pay for their purchases only by entering the pin on the phone in the store. This system is available only in the United States now. More...

'Watch out!' says The Verge. According to the story published on this website, some models of Trendnet home security cameras have a security vulnerability helping for attackers to bypass password authentication and reach thousands of personal IP cameras. For that, they have simply been using a special code revealed after some closer looks at Trendnet firmware or by simply searching on the web for the pages that collect open devices. More...

You should check your computer for one of those sneaky DNS Changer malwares that modify system in order to redirect most of the victim's traffic to the services attacker needs. The one we are talking about, Rove, has managed to infect around four millions of computers since the beginning of 2008. With its help, scammers get unlimited power over the compromised machine - they can replace download requests for a certain software, reorder search results and even exchange the ads that are displayed to you. More...

If you are Android user, you should be careful when installing the apps from the Android Market because you may install Trojan together with them. According to security researchers from Symantec, they have discovered a new malware that should be blamed for having infected more than 5 million Android mobile devices. According to this security firm, trojan which got Android. More...

Yesterday Microsoft reported about surprising findings in one of Russian antivirus firms – according to the announcement, one of its former technical experts, Andrey N. Sabelnikov, was found to be included in a coordination of the global spam machine called the Kelihos botnet. Thanks to Microsoft, this Botnet was taken down one year ago. More...

Metropolitan Police alert, also called the Ukash virus, is one of the latest scams that are used for trying to swindle the money from PC users. This scam, also distributed in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and other languages, is even capable to lock the desktop on the compromised machine for making its victim believe that he has really made something illegal, like watching videos with adult content or banned scenes against other people. However, Metropolitan Police international affair should be ignored  no matter how trustworthy it may look for you. More...

Some months ago we have warned you about the dangerous banking trojan called SpyEye. Additionally to its malicious features, such as HTML injection and others, it has been also found to have another feature helping for the scammers to hide the fraud and all the changes made on the compromised acount. This seems to be borrowed from Zeus trojan. More...

New Year has come and hackers have started spreading new scams on Facebook. This time it’s another clickjacking scam that has been noticed circulating on this social network. Using the curiosity of Facebook users, it tricks them into clicking on links pretending to be liked by their friends. More...

If you are looking for a job, don’t fall into those emails that spread around offering unreal nanny/au pair job offers that can be turned down only by the crazy ones. Promising £2700 per month plus £700 per week for expenses and many other things for carting two kids to school, these letters are clearly used by scammers to swindle the money. Who knows how many letters have been spread? Such scam letters include such and similar good-looking points: Schedule Your job is not a hard one,I do not believe in supervising or monitoring people to do their job. More...

According to FTC (Federal Trade Commission), 320. 000 PC users who have paid for the malwares from Winfixer family will be mailed a check with a refund this week. This group of rogue anti-spywares was actively spreading around on 2007-2008 and tricking users into believing that their computers are heavily infected with viruses. More...