April 16, 2012 - There’s a heavily liked / commented post on Facebook doing the rounds at the moment, and unfortunately it’s the latest reappearance of a very old spam missive related to passport page tearing shenanigans. Here’s a shot of the post – you (continue reading...) Read more
April 12, 2012 - Back in November, we highlighted a Tumblr typo site leading to iPad offers. That URL was Tumbr(dot)com – a similar situation seems to be playing out in Tumblr land so this time we’re looking at Tublr(dot)com. Should users (continue reading...) Read more
April 2, 2012 - The National Security Agency (NSA) recently established the NSA Mobility Program to focus on delivering secure mobile capability using commercial technologies to the United States Government (USG) and the Department of Defense (DOD). In February, the NSA released a 101-page document (v. (continue reading...) Read more
April 2, 2012 - Avid users of Pinterest should be aware that a large spamrun involving the Twitter account “Pinterestdep” is underway right now, asking users to visit the Twitter page and associated URL. Here’s one spam example in case the Twitter staff (continue reading...) Read more
April 2, 2012 - Beautiful word, “shenanigans”. It seems we just can’t get enough of profile trackers / stalkers / watchers, and this was bouncing around over the weekend in the form of “Profile Viewers” posted to Facebook walls: (continue reading...) Read more
March 29, 2012 - There’s not a day when we don’t see a new scam or hoax—yes, even the old ones—being proliferated on Facebook. I’ve seen both today. Let’s take a quick look at each one, shall we? First off, the scam: (continue reading...) Read more
March 22, 2012 - One of the most fascinating blow-outs I’ve seen in recent weeks is the furore over the ending to massively popular videogame franchise Mass Effect 3. The short version is: 1) Game developers make lots of promises (continue reading...) Read more
March 20, 2012 - Our security minded Undergraduate readers in Australia may wish to know that free tickets to Black Hat 2012 are up for grabs, should (continue reading...) Read more
March 19, 2012 - Certain compromised pages, which are search engine optimized, are found in the wild and accessible via popular search engines like Google and Bing. There pages were found to direct the user to a site where a faux scan is performed on (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2012 - Be advised that there are fake Linkedin invitation reminders in circulation sending users to a BlackHole exploit which attempts to drop Cridex onto the PC. Cridex is a rather nasty piece of work that does everything from target banks (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2012 - Senior Malware Analyst James Dee found a fake domain that claimed it has anything to do with Skype vouchers. This voucher, which is a form of Skype Credit, has been around for quite some time so it already has (continue reading...) Read more
March 13, 2012 - These past few months, the news has been all about who got hacked, what softwares’ vulnerable and should (continue reading...) Read more
March 8, 2012 - “Your mission, Boyd, should you choose to accept it is to fly from Manila to San Francisco and give a talk at RSA 2012. You’ll travel roughly 13,000 miles in 24 hours across almost every country known to man and (continue reading...) Read more
March 6, 2012 - When Aaron Brown (Senior Product Manager) and Bill Weihl (Green Energy Czar) announced that Google will be retiring its “personal health record service” Google Health, who would have thought that the company will find itself “involved” once again with rogue pharmaceutical companies (continue reading...) Read more
March 2, 2012 - When one of our colleagues in Malta received an email in his GMail inbox that purports to originate from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), he didn’t think twice about sending it over to the AV Labs for analysis. (continue reading...) Read more
February 24, 2012 - Pastebin is having a bit of a tough time at the moment, with persistent DDoS attacks doing their level best to keep the site offline. Something else it probably doesn’t need right now is a rise in automated (continue reading...) Read more
February 23, 2012 - Twilight fans who normally frequent the official website of Stephenie Meyer, infamous writer of the said book and (continue reading...) Read more
February 20, 2012 - Be wary of emails claiming to be from AICPA – as per their alert here, these are not real and any mention of “unlawful tax return fraud” is just a bait to convince the end-user to open up a (continue reading...) Read more
February 16, 2012 - Martin and his team are a long time reseller for GFI Software, representing us across the Czech Republic and Slovakia. With his pilot license in hand, he often takes to the skies in some of the planes at the local (continue reading...) Read more
February 15, 2012 - As part of our regular VIPREcast webinar series, this month I’ll be talking about Botnets, giving some examples of Botnet (continue reading...) Read more