Posted by admin on January 27, 2012
Zappos recently announced that they had been the victim of a cyber attack and that their 24+ million customers would be contacted about the incident. The database accessed did not include credit card or payment data and Zappos has already performed a reset on customer passwords. The breached information included name, e-mail address, billing and shipping addresses, [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | 
Tags: Banking Information, Breach, Consumers, Corporate Perspective, Customer Passwords, Cyber Attack, Cyber Criminals, E Mail Address, Encrypted Passwords, Forbes, Fraud, Great Time, Identity Theft, Last Four Digits, Password Reset, Phone Number, Precaution, Shipping Addresses, Source Of Information, Zappos | 
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Posted by admin on January 3, 2012
We have already written numerous times about the fact that social networks can be used by cyber criminals to harm their users. This technique we have spotted on the twitter network is not new, but it is interesting nonetheless. Its first form uses a callback function to the Twitter API, which makes it hard to discover [...]
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Algorithm, Api, Callback Function, Creators, Cyber Criminals, Digital Assets, Discovery, Domain Names, Evolution, Favorable Conditions, Favorite Library, Jquery, Malware, Obfuscation, Ploy, Predefined Values, Social Networks, Time Window, Time Windows, Trend Data | No Comments »
Posted by admin on December 12, 2011
Nearly 2,000 examples of ‘typosquatting’, affecting the websites of major high-street brands, have been detected.
Categories: internet | Tags: Aim, Christmas, Christmas Shoppers, Cyber Criminals, Street Brands, Typosquatting | No Comments »
Posted by admin on December 12, 2011
Nearly 2,000 examples of ‘typosquatting’, affecting the websites of major high-street brands, have been detected.
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Aim, Christmas, Christmas Shoppers, Cyber Criminals, Street Brands, Typosquatting | No Comments »
Posted by admin on November 3, 2011
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) have been a hot topic over the last 6 months, topping priority lists, reports, and high-profile breaches. APTs refers to groups with both the capability and the intent to persistently and effectively target a specific entity. In the web sense, this means a that a specific entity will be repeatedly targeted [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Breach, Breaches, Capability, Corporations, Cyber Criminals, Dedication, Disclosures, Fortune 100 Companies, Hackers, Hot Topic, Internet Infrastructure, Krebs, Priority, Rsa, Security Experts, Web Sense | No Comments »
Posted by admin on October 21, 2011
AVG’s latest Q3 2011 Community Powered Threat Report has highlighted the prevalence of a new breed of cybercrime attacks being launched against users’ ‘digital wallets’ to target the new credit currencies in widespread usage on the Internet. As individual users and businesses alike now start to trade in the ‘currency of the web’, cyber criminals [...]
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Corporate Websites, Credit Card Details, Crime Unit, Cyber Criminals, Cyber Theft, Digital Wallets, Endpoints, Lindens, Low Hanging Fruit, Malware, Metropolitan Police, Mobile Phone Bills, Mobile Technologies, New Breed, Phone Conversations, Premium Rate Services, Smartphone, Text Messaging, Upward Growth, Vectors | No Comments »
Posted by admin on September 14, 2011
Malware on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is up 273% in the first half of 2011, compared with the same period in 2010, a new study has shown. The results come from a study conducted by G Data Security Labs ndicates that mobile devices and tablets are being targeted by cyber criminals more [...]
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: 5 Million, Attacker, Cross Platform, Cyber Criminals, Data Security, Data Streams, G Data, Google, Last Resort, Malware, Mobilation, Mobile Devices, Premium Sms, Prominence, Registration Confirmation, Registrations, Security Labs, Sensitive Data, Smartphones, Strains | No Comments »
Posted by admin on August 4, 2011
AVG today presents “AVG Community Powered Threat Report – Q2 2011”, providing insight, background and analysis on the trends and developments in the global threat landscape. The report is based on the Community Protection Network traffic and data followed by research performed by AVG, over a three-month period. It provides an overview of web, mobile [...]
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Alarming Rate, Avg, Crooks, Cyber Crime, Cyber Criminals, Digital Certificates, Global Threat, Hackers, Landscape, Mac Attack, Mac Os Users, Market Share, Mobile Devices, Network Traffic, Premium Sms, Radar, Second Quarter, Social Engineering, Strong Community, Target Platform | No Comments »
Posted by admin on August 4, 2011
Professional social networking site LinkedIn has been accused of having cookie-related vulnerabilities which could allow hackers to hijack user accounts. The issue, according to independent security researcher Rishi Narang, is that the cookies from the site are not encrypted and are available in “plain text”. These cookies can contain saved login information and as such must [...]
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Attacker, Corporate Information, Cyber Criminals, Exploits, Hackers, Independent Security, Ipo, Linkedin, Man In The Middle Attack, Narang, Research Targets, Researcher, S System, Security Experts, Security Problems, Social Networking Site, Trojan Virus, User Profile, Vpns, Vulnerabilities | No Comments »
Posted by admin on July 2, 2011
Cyber criminals are scrapping widespread malicious email campaigns for more targeted attacks.
Categories: internet | Tags: Cyber Criminals, Email Campaigns, phishing, Prefered, Spam, Spear | No Comments »
