September 28, 2011 - Next week, I'll be talking at the Identity and Hi-Tech Crime Symposium 2011 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. There's still time for last-minute registrations at the event, so if you're in the region, why not join me there? (continue reading...) Read more
September 27, 2011 - The holiday season is about to commence and spammers have resurfaced with new offers well in advance. We have already observed spam for Christmas and New Year in the month of September, not to mention spam for Halloween, which is (continue reading...) Read more
September 26, 2011 - In 1990, when only the government and a number of universities were using the Internet, there were 357 unique pieces of malware. The need for security began with desktop computing when the only means of compromising data was by inserting (continue reading...) Read more
September 23, 2011 - Thanks to Shravan Shashikant and the Norton Confidential Online team for providing the data, and to Christopher Mendes for compiling it. Does phish taste better than spam? Yes, perhaps it does. Allow me to explain. The recent past has been one of (continue reading...) Read more
September 21, 2011 - Fake software stores often claim to offer huge discounts, not unlike the well-known site Groupon. So it should not be a surprise that some of these fake stores look exactly like Groupon in an effort to (continue reading...) Read more
September 14, 2011 - QR codes are a highly convenient way to link a physical object to a URL. Point your phone's camera at the 2D barcode and you're instantly taken to a website. That's something (continue reading...) Read more
September 12, 2011 - I must be the luckiest person on the planet - I keep winning lotteries! Here's the latest notification - straight from Aunty Beeb herself, the BBC. Apparently the BBC is now deciding who (continue reading...) Read more
September 9, 2011 - Thanks to Vivek Krishnamurthi for contributing to this blog. Every sensitive event is an opportunity to exploit. With this motive in the background, it is not surprising to see spammers exploit 9/11. With the 10th anniversary of the tragedy just a (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - Thanks to Amit Kulkarni for his contributions to this blog. Since its launch, the Apple iPhone has been on the wish lists of most consumers. The iPhone 4 has already made an impression in the marketplace, so it is obvious that (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - We continue to see Twitter users being targeted by criminal campaigns designed to phish passwords for the site. The problem is that often they are disguised as direct messages (DMs in Twitter parlance) (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has been tracking a large number of messages masquerading as legitimate messages from the Electronic Payment Association NACHA. The messages bear legitimate traits, as the display name and routing details seem to confirm. Further (continue reading...) Read more
September 2, 2011 - With British students about to start another year at university, the last thing they probably want to hear is that there is a problem with a student loan. But that's precisely (continue reading...) Read more
August 26, 2011 - When a Naked Security reader forwarded us a suspicious email he received today, it served as a healthy reminder for all computer users to be on their guard against phishing (continue reading...) Read more
August 19, 2011 - The days when I used to send out phish alerts are long gone: I wouldn't have time to blog them, let alone track them. But this message just turned up sent to the askeset@ account, alerting Mr askeset@ to a (continue reading...) Read more
August 18, 2011 - Another scam to steal Twitter users credentials is making the rounds today. The tweets being sent out read "Twitter might start to charge in October, sign this petition to keep the service free! -URL-." (continue reading...) Read more
August 17, 2011 - The best way to double check that the page you are visiting is a legitimate page and not a phishing site, is to verify the domain name in the address bar (obviously, this does not work (continue reading...) Read more
August 15, 2011 - A British man stole £35,000 (approximately US$ 55,000) from his neighbours' bank accounts after determining their passwords via personal information they posted on Facebook. Fortunately, there's some advice which the rest of (continue reading...) Read more
August 13, 2011 - Phishers are once again on the prowl for unsuspecting Twitter users, tempting their prey with the promise of pictures of Osama Bin Laden. Pictures of Osama Bin Laden Some of (continue reading...) Read more
August 12, 2011 - Twitter users are being hit today by messages claiming to link to a new app from Twitter which will track your stalkers. However, the messages are really designed to steal your Twitter usernames and passwords. Here's a typical message that users are (continue reading...) Read more
August 9, 2011 - Websense Security Labs™ and the Websense ThreatSeeker® Network have detected malicious emails disguised as HSBC Notifications. A closer look at these emails, like the one you can see below, reveals that the link provided in the emails is a compromised URL belonging (continue reading...) Read more