February 18, 2011 - In the United States, Presidents' Day is celebrated on the third Monday of February to honor two of America’s greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. This year, Presidents' Day will be celebrated on February 21. Recently, Symantec has observed (continue reading...) Read more
February 17, 2011 - Posted on behalf of Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec.cloud It has only been a few days since the resignation of Egypt's long-standing president, Hosni Mubarak, who resigned after intense political pressure following days of widespread protest across the country. As (continue reading...) Read more
February 17, 2011 - The UK government has today published a report into the cost of cybercrime, concluding that the overall cost to the UK economy from cybercrime is £27bn per year. Wow. £27 billion (continue reading...) Read more
February 16, 2011 - Steam, the world's largest online gaming platform, is increasingly being targeted by phishers trying to steal credentials from its 30 million users. If you're not familiar with Steam, just imagine something like iTunes - but (continue reading...) Read more
February 15, 2011 - Posted on behalf of Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec.cloud MessageLabs Intelligence recently tracked a new pharmaceutical spam campaign promoting a supposedly "Google-accredited" online pharmacy. This is obvious brand hijacking: Google does not host or approve any pharmacy sites. We (continue reading...) Read more
February 15, 2011 - Serene Branson, a CBS Los Angeles newsreader, became an unwilling YouTube star overnight after speculation spread that she had suffered a stroke while presenting from the Grammy Awards. The footage of Serene Branson (continue reading...) Read more
February 14, 2011 - We're seeing a widespread malware attack in our spam traps this morning - and what's making it unusual is that it appears not to be able to decide what it is. When you (continue reading...) Read more
February 13, 2011 - This is a 419 (a so-called Nigerian scam letter) received via Facebook. Well, it doesn't look very Nigerian, and it includes a phone number that appears to be in Hong Kong (no, I haven't tried it out). But the letter, (continue reading...) Read more
February 11, 2011 - Sophos is intercepting a malicious spam attack, which attempts to infect recipient's computers with a Trojan horse by pretending to contain images of the Scandinavian sender. Here is what a typical malicious email looks like: (continue reading...) Read more
February 11, 2011 - The global spam volume, which has been the discussion topic for several months, appears to have finally stopped its decline. The month-over-month global spam volume was down in January again, but this was mostly due to the Rustock botnet shutdown, (continue reading...) Read more
February 10, 2011 - Italian users could be at risk of being clickjacked on Facebook, as a new attack is seen spreading between users. SophosLabs has been seeing some detections of Mal/FBJack-A from Italian users, as they attempt to watch a video of a (continue reading...) Read more
February 10, 2011 - The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is famous for having the world's largest collection of Vincent Van Gogh's drawings and paintings. But it has another reason to draw our attention today (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2011 - With Valentine's Day approaching on February 14th, scammers on Facebook are ramping up their efforts to take advantage of the traditional day of love to make a quick buck out of unsuspecting users. Facebook users are being tricked into clicking on (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2011 - The domain .РФ (.rf) is the internationalized domain name (IDN) for domains registered under the Russian Federation. The .rf top-level domain (TLD) became operational on May 13, 2010, and was officially opened up for public registration on November (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2011 - Last month Sophos published its annual threat report, looking back over the biggest security stories of 2010 and ahead to some of the challenges companies may face in protecting their systems in the year ahead. I was lucky enough to (continue reading...) Read more
February 7, 2011 - How low is a Facebook scammer prepared to go? Here's a pretty sick rogue application that we've seen affecting some users of the world's most popular social network, leading to the all too familiar money-making survey scam at the (continue reading...) Read more
February 5, 2011 - Many Facebook users have contacted the Naked Security team this weekend, reporting that they have fallen victim to a fast-spreading scam that claims you can find out who is stalking you on Facebook and viewing your profile. Judging by the number (continue reading...) Read more
February 5, 2011 - Yesterday, the UK foreign secretary, William Hague, explained to a security conference in Munich how cyber criminals were (continue reading...) Read more
February 4, 2011 - Cybercriminals are attempting to infect computers around the world, disguising their attack as an email claiming to come from United Parcel Service about a parcel delivery. But this time they're not using words, they're using an embedded image to trick you (continue reading...) Read more
February 3, 2011 - As we have noted, spam levels are starting to climb back up. Here at Websense Security Labs™, we want to highlight a familiar campaign theme that has been repackaged by spammers, as seen by our ThreatSeeker™ Network. Websense messaging customers have been protected (continue reading...) Read more