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Tips for mitigating the financial impact of identity theft

With a number of large retailers and banks reporting massive data security breaches in the last year, leaving hundreds of millions of consumers’ personal information …

Malicious YouTube ads lead to exploits, ransomware

In the last few months, Trend Micro researchers have been following a malvertising campaign that ended up affecting almost exclusively US users at the beat of more than …

Emma Watson leaked Facebook video delivers Trojans

A new scam is taking advantage of Emma Watson’s growing popularity and using the Harry Potter star as bait to spread malware on Facebook, warns antivirus solutions …

Malicious eBay listings redirect users to phishing site

An IT worker from Scotland who is also an “eBay PowerSeller” has discovered an eBay listing for an iPhone that was rigged to redirect potential buyers to a spoofed …

“Win Free iPhone 6” scams hit Facebook

As the day of the release of Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus draws near, scammers have expectedly begun using the new devices as a lure in Facebook scams. As usual, …

Researcher creates exploit for compromising scammers’ computers

Even if you never had to deal personally with “Windows support” scammers, chances are someone you know did or you have heard about these type of scams. These …

Google Apps scripts can be easily misused by scammers

Andrew Cantino, VP of Engineering at Mavenlink but also a bug hunter in his free time, has discovered that Google Apps Scripts can be misused by attackers to access …

Phishers resort to AES crypto to obfuscate phishing sites

Phishers have started employing AES encryption to disguise the real nature of phishing sites from automatic phishing detection tools. This is the latest obfuscating trick in …

80% of business users are unable to detect phishing scams

McAfee Labs revealed that phishing continues to be an effective tactic for infiltrating enterprise networks. Testing business users’ ability to detect online scams, the …

Beware of scams following the celebrity nude photo news

As the FBI confirmed that they are investigating the leaking of nude photographs (some real, some fake) of a hundred female celebrities, the hunt for the person(s?) behind it …

70% of IT pros experience weekly phishing attacks

69 percent of IT professionals experience phishing attacks at least once a week, with customer data cited most often as the type of data attacked, followed by financial …

Phishers targeting crypto currency and retail sites

Online payment services and crypto-currency sites are being targeted by phishers. The number of phishing attacks remained high, and the second quarter of 2014 saw the …

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