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10 years ago hackers were mainly just hobbyists, but nowadays they’ve been replaced by sophisticated criminals, who can get in your system without you even noticing it. This can be done in many ways, which get more and more complex, and complexity is certainly the worst enemy of security. With technology rapidly becoming faster and […]

It’s business as usual and while spammers keep changing their techniques, researchers keep developing new technology to counter them.
Google has been used as a search tool for vulnerabilities in the past. Now it's junk mail developers turn – spammers started using advanced search features to disguise the URLs of spamvertised websites. With a […]

We bet you have enough trouble with spam as it is, but now it’s stalking us on our mobile phones as well. And while computer spam just eats your time and nerve, phone spam might cost you money, as you may have to pay for incoming unsolicited messages.
Ferris Research states that US mobile […]

Previously unknown RealPlayer exploitation was discovered last week. So far, it can be told that unpatched vulnerability affects the latest versions of RealPlayer and RealPlayer 11 BETA, although older versions may also be vulnerable. Furthermore, an ActiveX object in the RealPlayer component ierpplug.dll is affected. This is not the first case of exploitation of this […]

Scammers are getting better at avoiding filters by using file formats not generally blocked or difficult for filters to disassemble. First there was "image spam", then the spam that used the PDF file format. And now the newest version of MP3 spam is spreading rapidly. Last week this audio form of spam has risen from […]

A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon monitored the underground markets, where viruses and stolen data are sold to the highest bidder, for seven months and developed automated techniques to catalogue the activities of criminals, who, the team said, even offer updates and tech support for their malicious creations.
The buyer would contact the black market […]

One of the methods of phishing your personal information is to direct you to a spoofed site, that looks exactly how it's supposed to, but the appearance is just a trick to lead you to a site designed specifically to collect your personal info. Firefox released an add-on that will help identify sites that have […]

You hear about scams that lurk online every day. When you see as many articles about successful phishing attempts as this year, you may think that whole online scam thing is exaggerated. Some people even think that phishing has nothing to do with their lifes as no one is interested in their personal information. Both […]

Security researchers report a dramatic decrease of phishing emails targeting PayPal and eBay customers.
A research conducted by Sophos Labs says that in September 2006 almost 9 out of 10 phishing emails were trying to steal information from eBay and PayPal users, and now it’s 1 in 5, which is an impressive turnaround. Sophos informs that […]

Australia’s finally realizing the threats of cyber attacks to the country’s government institutions and business sector, which were attacked dozens of times this year, and now it’s raising concerns about the safety of personal and financial data of users.
A hacker’s website tells about numerous security breaches of government websites. Although it doesn’t say anything about […]