February 14, 2012 - —and they aptly named it Do Not Track Plus (DNT+). In this day and age when almost every site on the Internet is interested in “getting to know more about you”, I reckon our privacy-conscious readers might take delight on (continue reading...) Read more
February 12, 2012 - With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, what better way to say “I love you” than, uh, losing your login details and spamming $500 Victoria’s Secret giftcards to all your Tumblr followers. (continue reading...) Read more
February 8, 2012 - Social engineering ploys doesn’t grow old—probably never will considering how effective they are no matter how simple. More often (continue reading...) Read more
February 8, 2012 - There’s an Xbox code generator floating around on Youtube and other sites right now, and a pretty popular one at that. How popular? This popular: (continue reading...) Read more
February 7, 2012 - With the U.S. currently in tax season, online criminals have, once again, sought to take advantage of this. Robert Stetson, one of our malware researchers, spotted a phishing email posing as Intuit Inc., a company that “develops financial and (continue reading...) Read more
February 1, 2012 - I encountered this “new way for rapists to lure girls” story years ago from another social networking site. I’m quite sad yet generally not surprised that it has already made its way to Facebook. (continue reading...) Read more
February 1, 2012 - Last September of 2011, Microsoft and an anti-malware security company had joined forces to take (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 30, 2012 - Hot on the heels of the “free Starbucks giftcards” nonsense from last week comes a number of Tumblr accounts compromised and serving up “Free Southwest Airlines tickets” posts. (continue reading...) Read more
January 27, 2012 - Matthew, one of our malware researchers analyzed a Web threat that recently came to our attention thanks to a report from one of our VIPRE clients. Vkernel(dot)org (not to be mistaken with vkernel.com) is found to be a scam launchpad (continue reading...) Read more
January 26, 2012 - We’re seeing a lot of freshly compromised Tumblr accounts, all of which are posting up an image file located here that claims to be a “Tumblr Staff Blog” (it isn’t), proclaiming the joys of “Free $50 Starbucks gift cards”. Here’s an (continue reading...) Read more
January 24, 2012 - You’re probably aware that Megaupload has wandered into what can only be described as a bit of a pickle, assuming said pickle is roughly the size of a Vogon Constructor Fleet. Given that lots of people probably want to take (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - Microsoft is going all out on hammering the last nail on Kelihos’s coffin. The takedown that took place 4 (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - There have been warnings over the last few days regarding a Halo 4 Beta invite scam. Information was pretty thin on the ground, however, so I decided to take a look – especially as there were reports of (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - You may well have read about the BBB phish / exploit emails doing the rounds last week. It’s worth noting that these are still in circulation – we’ve seen five of these in the last two days linking to (continue reading...) Read more
January 19, 2012 - February 7th will be a fun day indeed if you love the smell of Malware in the morning. GFI (continue reading...) Read more
January 13, 2012 - Yes, we are :)An inevitable move, (continue reading...) Read more
January 12, 2012 - The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (simply known as US-CERT) is the latest bait phishers used to get users to install (continue reading...) Read more
January 11, 2012 - "No way" indeed.The Naked and Famous were displaying the following Tweet on their feed earlier: (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