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Bank is considered to be safe place; online banking sites are considered to have a strong security as well. But are things always the same as we think they are?
A study in University of Michigan revealed shocking facts: there was at least single design vulnerability in more than 75 percent of online banking websites. And […]

We could hope for more secure days of the internet to come, if only security researches forecasted anything positive. Unfortunately, when it comes to safety of the World Wide Web, each computer user is as vulnerable as a fly on spiders net.
ScanSafe Global Threat research reported malware rates were 278 percent higher first half of […]

MessageLabs have just published results of worldwide email research. Those indicated Switzerland as the country that is attacked by spammers the most. In fact, average person in Switzerland receives 10% more spam than average web user from some other country. According to the results one email message in 134 is infected with a virus while […]

Have you ever wondered what could happen if you’d replied to every “Buy V1agra” message, clicked on every link offering weight loss pills or video of Cristina Aguilera naked? Thanks to experiment organized by McAfee, we know what happens.
McAfee recruited 50 volunteers in 10 countries for a job every security expert tells you to avoid […]

Large scale survey finds 40 percent of internet users surfing with unsafe web browsers. Researchers from IBM, Google and the Communication Systems Groups combined efforts to find out if computers owners care about safety of their web browsers and the results were not as good as expected.
The study was based on Google logs that recorded […]

Although Nigerian scam is one of the most known and most recognized online frauds, there are still people who get into this trap and lose money. But computer users are not the ones to blame – scammers usually make the malicious scheme look so real that even the biggest skeptics fail to resist.
The name “Nigerian […]

Spammers are not the most popular persons in a world, but $6 million fine one of them has to pay still makes you raise eyebrows. But it’s only until you know what he was punished for. So what a human should do to receive a penalty like that?
The name “Consumerpromotionscenter.com” is well known for MySpace […]

Each country is limited by its laws and territory, while cyber crimes are global. You can easily come to the conclusion on your own: fighting cyber crimes should be international deal, otherwise it’s doomed. Politicians of Japan and France apparently are familiar with the situation online and met on 12th June to discuss the matter. […]

Everyone who has an email box, mobile phone, account on a social network, a blog, etc. has an opinion about spam as well. That’s because spam evolves and targets new territories everyday, why can’t we fight the spam efficiently?
Old-fashioned spam used for marketing purposes seems to be harmless in comparison with spam that infects computers […]

People tend to avoid dangerous neighborhood, but when it comes to the virtual space we often ignore the reputation of certain domains. Do you know which domains are most likely to infect your computer? And which ones are quite safe to visit? McAfee recently made a list of the most insecure domains of virtual world.
The […]