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Hijacked phishing page warns users about phishing

hen you follow security news daily like I do, it is tough to keep a positive outlook when day after day you hear and read of users falling for basically the same scams simply …

Ten early warning signs of fraud

Anti-fraud consultancy UK Fraud published a list of ten common early warning signs which could alert management that fraud may be occurring in their organization. The list …

Mac Trojan disrupts automatic updating of XProtect

A variant of the recently discovered Flashback Trojan for Mac OS X has acquired the capability to disrupt the automatic updating of XProtect, the operating system’s …

Information theft still a serious threat to global business

Fraud remains predominantly an inside job, according to the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report. The study shows that 60 percent of frauds are committed by insiders, up from 55 …

Engineer jailed for turning PIN Entry Devices into skimmers

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 …

Analysis of 250,000 hacker conversations

Imperva released a report analyzing the content and activities of an online hacker forum with nearly 220,000 registered members, although many are dormant. This forum is used …

Offers from domain resellers evade spam filters

The Internet has created a great amount of business opportunities – most of them legal, some not and some that fall in the gray area between the two extremes. An example …

4 million identity fraud victims in the UK

Identity fraud continues to rise with 4 million victims in UK alone – yet consumers continue to be complacent with their identities. According to research commissioned …

Sesame Street YouTube channel hacked

Followers of the Sesame Street YouTube channel have had a nasty surprise when they tuned in on Sunday. Instead of the children-friendly videos they were faced with pretty …

When it comes to intrusions, size matters

A survey of enterprise IT managers and network administrators that has been conducted annually since 2005 shows that there has been a gradual increase in smaller enterprises …

Trojanized Netflix app steals account login credentials

When Netflix released an Android client app earlier this year, it also witnessed the attempts of various app developers who tried to make a pirated copy of it work on other …

90,000 accounts compromised in new Sony attack

60,000 PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network accounts and 33,000 Sony Online Entertainment accounts have been compromised during what Sony describes as a testing …

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