Spear phishers target Craigslist users
Spear phishing is quickly becoming the favorite way for cyber intruders to gain access to company and government systems. But even private individuals aren’t safe, and a …
Employee-owned mobile devices are riskiest
More than half of information technology leaders in the US believe that any employee-owned mobile device poses a greater risk to the enterprise than mobile devices supplied by …
Iran aims to exchange the global Internet for a national one
The Iran government is increasingly unsatisfied with the influence the Internet is exercising on the country’s citizens despite its censorship efforts and is planning on …
Encrypt files on Mac with BestCrypt
Jetico announced that their popular BestCrypt Container Encryption software now offers full compatibility with Mac computers. The software delivers data protection. Selected …
Fake Epsilon breach warning tricks users
Among the most annoying things you can find online are pages that pretend to offer or try to push a service in order to make money by simply referring the user to another …
35 million Google Profiles collected into private database
If you are one of those individuals that made their own Google Profile, chances are that you knew and agreed to the fact that the information you included in it will be …
Sony online store hacked and user information published
It seems that hacking Sony’s assets has become a communal game in the hacker underground. Since the PSN hack, hardly a week went by without a hacker notifying the public …
US communications privacy law in for a change?
As technology speeds progressively forward, privacy laws need to get updated. As the amount of information we share and keep online – on social networks, stored in cloud …
Journalist arrested for article on Facebook privacy flaw
Australian journalist Ben Grubb was arrested yesterday following the publication of an article he wrote about a demonstration of how to access Facebook photos even if they are …
Two teenage GhostMarket members sentenced
Two UK teenagers who stole credit card details from a number of online casinos, betting companies and web hosting companies and sold them on the now defunct GhostMarket have …
Hackers steal, publish Fox employee passwords
A group of attackers who clearly have it in for Fox Broadcasting have managed to access a company server with hundreds of their employees’ email usernames and passwords. …
The rise of rogue AV
April saw a continued increase in the volume of detected malware, with 73,000 new variants of threats being released daily – a 26 percent increase over the same period …