cybercriminals

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 …

It seems that the floodgates have opened. Following the confirmed attack against Lockheed Martin‘s computer networks comes the news that two more US military contractors …

Fake AV peddlers have begun using Facebook to drive traffic to the malicious site that tries to trick users into believing their computer is infected. With subject lines like …

BitDefender discovered a spam wave using the Romanian president’s image to help spread malware. The unsolicited e-mail relies on a classic combination of social …

YouTube users are targeted with notifications supposedly sent by YouTube administrators and containing links to Canadian pharmacy sites, warns BitDefender. With “YouTube …

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 …

With phishing attacks hurting the credibility of email communications, forward thinking banks are turning to social media as the best channel to warn customers of scams and …

The recent spate of attacks against Sony’s various assets has probably made a lot of companies thank their lucky stars that they aren’t the ones who have been …

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 …

For the first time ever, spammers are establishing their own their own fake URL-shortening services to perform URL redirection, according to Symantec. This new spamming …

A survey showed that 40% of IT staff admit that they could hold their employers hostage – even after they’ve left for other employment – by making it …

A former Bank of America (BOA) computer programmer was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for unauthorized access to the financial institution’s protected …