scams

Hacking into someone’s mail account can be easy if the person chose an easily guessable password, but could be nigh impossible to brute force it if it’s long and …

A German electronics engineer has been sentenced to three years in a UK prison for having modified a number of PIN Entry Devices to record the information used to clone credit …

Facebook users are constantly targeted by emails posing as legitimate notifications from the popular social network, and the latest ones are an upgraded version of an old fake …

Fraudulent online storefront promising cheap HP Touchpads, poisoned search engine results targeting users searching on Yahoo and Bing, and spam promising a US green card have …

PandaLabs detected a malicious link on Facebook that was being used to exploit the news of the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Just a few hours after Steve Jobs’ …

63 percent of more than 4,000 respondents in a new Ponemon Institute survey said that social media in the workplace represents a serious security risk — yet only 29 percent …

After a short pause, the failed/cancelled ACH transaction spam is hitting inboxes again. Since yesterday, Websense has intercepted over 200,000 of the following emails: The …

Facebook’s planned changes, while increasing interaction between users, could also flood the site with Twitter-style spambots and increase targeted attacks, according to …

The breach of the Atlanta-based Silverpop Systems back in December 2010 has resulted in the compromise of (some confirmed, some not) corporate mailing lists of over 100 big …

Zscaler released a free security tool that protects against malicious threats, scams and spam propagated on Facebook through a technique called “Likejacking.” …

Since the third installment of the popular Diablo game franchise has been announced in 2008, fans all over the world have been impatiently waiting for it to become available. …

“Searches for buying software online remains 90 percent malicious, redirecting users to fake stores,” concluded Julian Sobrier recently, after having analyzed the …