April 30, 2009 - Today we announced our first quarter 2009 financial results. These results demonstrate that, despite a challenging economic environment, our strategy is working. In the first quarter of 2009, we continued to take market share and outpace the (continue reading...) Read more
April 30, 2009 - As the swine flu outbreak reaches near pandemic levels, cybercriminals continue to use the flu scare as bait to scam Internet users. About five percent of global spam volume now mentions “swine flu” to trick people into (continue reading...) Read more
April 30, 2009 - Searching for good things with bad results is something that now happens on a regular basis, like the example we blogged about the other day. But now it's personal - searching for "f-secure" leads to rogue products. (continue reading...) Read more
April 30, 2009 - After spam runs related to UPS, FedEx, and Western Union, another form of invoice spam strikes again! We caught a new invoice spam that is purportedly from WorldPay, a division of (continue reading...) Read more
April 29, 2009 - The Waledac botnet has been actively used to push malware since last year.The tactics employed by Waledac are so similar to the old Storm Worm that we have reason to believe they are closely connected. (continue reading...) Read more
April 29, 2009 - Following up on Chris Barton’s excellent blog the other day on swine flu spam, we wanted to take a closer look at the numbers….. Many people may not realize that the words “swine” and “flu” had really not been seen (continue reading...) Read more
April 29, 2009 - Websense® Security Labs™ has been receiving new Facebook phishing scam messages in our HoneyJax™ systems, the part of our ThreatSeeker™ Network used to monitor social networking attacks. The phishing lure, referred to as “fbstarter”, arrives as a message in a (continue reading...) Read more
April 29, 2009 - Money laundering is a process for concealing the origin of funds generated by illegal means. People generally associate money laundering with drug trafficking, gun smuggling, or corruption. But funds misappropriated by identity theft, phishing, and carding also have to be (continue reading...) Read more
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April 29, 2009 - No surprise at all that Google searches for information about the Twitter worm would lead to malware sites, it was really just a matter of time. Especially not after all the talk about it over the weekend (continue reading...) Read more
April 28, 2009 - Microsoft just released the security updates for April and this includes the fix for Excel which have been exploited in targeted attacks for over a month now. Make sure you download these patches, including the one for Excel (continue reading...) Read more
April 28, 2009 - Here’s an article I found on Lifehacker, a useful, mainstream website. The article points to a step-by-step tutorial on how to circumvent IT’s security controls using FreeProxy. Have a look. Matt talks a little about circumventing applications in this (continue reading...) Read more
April 28, 2009 - Many years ago, I had a checkbook stolen. My husband and I were only married for a few years, had a toddler and not a lot of money in the bank. Somewhere in the few blocks between my daycare (continue reading...) Read more
April 28, 2009 - Customers have heard us say over the years that the threat environment is an ever-evolving one. That means that one of our jobs in working to keep customers safe is to continually monitor the threat environment (continue reading...) Read more
April 28, 2009 - I get emails every single day from people who don’t know where to report things when they go wrong. They fear that they are being scammed on ebay, or have had their creditcard information stolen and misused. They don’t (continue reading...) Read more
April 28, 2009 - After the World Health Organization raised its global alert level on the spreading swine flu virus, Spammers quickly used this event for their spam campaigns. Early this morning, we have seen spam samples using Swine flu worldwide! or Swine (continue reading...) Read more
April 27, 2009 - According to Consumer Reports, U.S. consumers have lost close to $8.5 billion to cybercrime over the last two years. Unfortunately many people don’t know they have become a victim or even what cybercrime is. To help solve that problem, (continue reading...) Read more
April 27, 2009 - The Swine Flu pill spam has started and it’s taking a few Hollywood stars names in vain. Nothing out of the ordinary with the sites on the far end yet though I do expect Oseltamivir will get some (continue reading...) Read more
April 27, 2009 - Twitter administrators don't seem to be able to shut down the various XSS / CSRF worms that have been plaguing the service over the weekend.The actual problems to end users haven't been devastating — so far. (continue reading...) Read more
April 27, 2009 - They say the Internet is making the world smaller. Whether that’s the case for the rest of us is debatable or not, but for one group of people it’s definitely true: spammers. Consider this new sample that our team came across (continue reading...) Read more