Archive for July, 2008

The most recent trend in phishing society was free phishing kits. Those who thought it could be cool to scam someone could simply download prepared scheme and get to work. However those who got interested in running some kind of phishing strategy ironically become victims of other phishers. More...

New vulnerabilities are discovered every day; they are nothing to buzz about. However, when malware creators start using smarter ways to exploit the flaws, vulnerabilities emerge as top threat. The latest Internet Security Systems X-Force report revealed that the bad guys came up with automatic ways to attack new vulnerabilities. More...

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 each of those flaws could make customers lose money or even identities. More...

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 2008 in comparison to last year’s data. More...

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. More...

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 at all costs: replying to spam emails and clicking on every shiny pop-up. Every volunteer has been given a new computer for this experiment. More...

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 names of web browsers used for each search request on Google on time period between January 2007 and June 2008. More...