Phishers exploit New Zealand earthquake
Natural disasters are practically always exploited by scammers, and the earthquake that hit New Zealand and left thousands of its citizens homeless is not an exception, …
Teenage eBay fraudster damned by own journals
An Australian teenager has been sentenced two three years in prison after having plead guilty to over 100 charges of online fraud perpetrated on eBay. The fraudster effected …
Reset Gmail accounts to be restored completely
Gmail users that have finally managed to enter their accounts only to find them devoid of any content can take a collective relieved breath as Google says that things …
Nessus 4.4.1 released
The Nessus vulnerability scanner features high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security …
Malware family integration across botnets
Analysis by Symantec reveals that in February, 1 in 290.1 emails (0.345%) was malicious making February among the most prolific time periods both in terms of simultaneous …
US college becomes online identity theft victim
Officials of the private liberal arts Reed College from Oregon are currently trying to take down a site for a bogus University of Redwood that was put up by unknown …
Stolen e-mails reveal Morgan Stanley was hit by Aurora attacks
Global financial services firm Morgan Stanley seems also to have been a victim of the hackers behind the Aurora attacks which came to light a year ago when Google decided to …
Myvue.com and Autotrader.co.uk infected with malvertising
Taking advantage of the fact that a lot of security companies are more relaxed over the weekend, cybercriminals use the opportunity to strike. This weekend, the popular auto …
Attackers take advantage of emerging technologies
Attackers continue to focus on social engineering attacks and circumventing legacy enterprise security systems, according to Zscaler. Q4 saw shifts in the sources of …
Intel completes McAfee acquisition
Intel announced the acquisition of McAfee is complete. McAfee will continue developing and selling security products and services under its own brand. Intel and McAfee plan to …
Eating the US EMV elephant
Last week, Visa announced that it would eliminate the requirement for eligible merchants to annually validate their compliance with the PCI DSS for any year in which at least …
Toshiba e-Studio855SE series with advanced security features
Toshiba introduced their new e-STUDIO855SE Series (models 555SE, 655SE, 755SE, 855SE) which provides Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Encryption and Data Overwrite out of the box. …
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