February 4, 2012 - You may not need pills to watch the super bowl but spammers feel that this definitely is an occasion to do so! The most exciting annual championship of the NFL - the Super Bowl XLVI - starts tomorrow. And as (continue reading...) Read more
February 2, 2012 - If the newswires are to be believed, the death of spam is imminent. Again! The saviour this time round is DMARC, which is backed by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, PayPal, LinkedIn, Bank Of America and more. Find out what it's all (continue reading...) Read more
January 31, 2012 - I saw a thread over on Reddit regarding the “Funniest scam I’ve ever seen”. Unfortunately the main linked screenshot of the scam site is now offline, but someone provided the URL of the website in the comments so I (continue reading...) Read more
January 31, 2012 - Nothing can be more enticing than to be chosen for some free goodies—be it mementos, a cash prize, or a ticket to watch a game. It gets even more interesting if you are from a cricket crazy continent and suddenly, (continue reading...) Read more
January 30, 2012 - Malware is often embedded in email as compressed attachments (such as .zip, .rar, etc.). Recently, however, Symantec has noticed an increase in malicious email attacks with .htm (HTML) attachments. Here is what the message looks like in your inbox: (continue reading...) Read more
January 27, 2012 - Care about preserving privacy and protecting against financial fraud, identity theft and viruses? With vast amounts of personal and business data now found on Android, BlackBerry, Windows and Symbian smartphones and tablets, mobile security threats continue to increase and threaten (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - Recently, I came across a scam email that is trying to take advantage of the hype surrounding the yet-to-be-released iPad 3. The release date of the iPad 3 is still unknown but spammers are already jumping on the bandwagon in (continue reading...) Read more
January 20, 2012 - On Christmas Day, 2011, Apple product users were targeted by a major phishing attack. The Mac Security Blog reported, “A vast phishing attack has broken out, beginning on or around Christmas day, with emails being sent with the subject (continue reading...) Read more
January 18, 2012 - One of TechCrunch's web servers is serving up pages which definitely don't belong at TechCrunch! But it may not be the result of malicious hacking.. Read more
January 15, 2012 - SophosLabs is warning users not to read too much into docs.google.com URLs. Two scam campaigns this weekend used Google Docs to attack two very different targets. One had big-four Aussie bank ANZ in its sights; the other was aimed at a (continue reading...) Read more
January 13, 2012 - Did you receive a message saying that Hotmail's email servers were congested, and so they were removing all unused accounts? If so, I hope you responded to the email with a roll of the eyes and a quick stab of the (continue reading...) Read more
January 11, 2012 - The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (simply known as US-CERT) is the latest (continue reading...) Read more
January 11, 2012 - “No way” indeed. The Naked and Famous were displaying the following Tweet on their feed earlier: Click to (continue reading...) Read more
January 6, 2012 - Customers of Stratfor who had their account details published by Anonymous last month started receiving joke spam messages today containing the famous Rickroll video. This message is a pertinent reminder that many of our emails and business relationships were disclosed (continue reading...) Read more
January 3, 2012 - CommTouch, an Internet security service provider, has recently released their Internet Threats Trend Report for 2011. In this report, they have highlighted and analyzed the various threats on Facebook that had plagued users for the past year, such as social (continue reading...) Read more
December 29, 2011 - It is the season once again for phishers to try and lure in their victims with bogus tax rebates, income tax mistakes and other nonsense. Read on for the latest tax related scam targeting citizens of the United Kingdom. (continue reading...) Read more
December 27, 2011 - For the Seventh Scam of Christmas the criminals gave to me phishing – but the big phish is me! My father in law mentioned that he got an email saying that he had a package that they couldn’t deliver and he (continue reading...) Read more
December 27, 2011 - In a few days, the world will ring in the New Year with renewed hope for a bright future. Predictions are being made about what 2012 will bring, and unfortunately instead of focusing on the positive, many of them are (continue reading...) Read more
December 19, 2011 - Robert Stetson, one of our malware researchers at the AV Labs, found a new phishing scam in the wild. The scam arrives as an email that directs users to the URL, data-server(dot)host(dot)org/email/protect/chase/. (continue reading...) Read more
December 15, 2011 - While I share the reluctance of my colleagues to predict the future, I think there are some trends that can be classified as “reasonably likely to occur” in 2012. I make no promises, but here’s what I think we will (continue reading...) Read more