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With news of the struggling high street becoming a regular occurrence, it is not surprising that increasingly small businesses are seeking opportunities online. However …

Sambreel, a California-based firm that nearly two years ago has been found using browser plugins to deliver ads by injecting them into Facebook and Google pages, is up to its …

A series of Internet campaigns pushing bogus Firefox updates onto unwary users have been spotted by researchers, and among them is one that lures them in through “Green …

If, for whatever reason, you wish to hack into someone else’s Facebook account, searching online for ways to do it will likely bring you grief. Take for example a …

Android vulnerabilities, increased online banking threats and availability of sophisticated, inexpensive malware toolkits are among the growing concerns cited in Trend …

Phishing attack frequency declined 20 percent from Q4 2012 to Q1 2013, due to a precipitous drop in virtual server phishing attacks. APWG statistics indicate that phishing …

2013 has been touted by Gartner as the year when mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide. When you think about it, it’s logical, …

According to Kaspersky Lab, the percentage of spam in email traffic in June was up 1.4 percentage points and averaged at 71.1 per cent. Malicious attachments were found in 1.8 …

The FTC has moved to shut down an international network of scammers that sent millions of unwanted text messages to consumers, using the lure of “free” gift cards …

Cyber crooks will go at great lengths to get their hand on users’ credit and debit card information. Usually they try to trick them with spoofed emails that lead to …

Malicious apps misusing on of the two recently discovered Android “Master Key” bugs to successfully pose as legitimate ones have been discovered on third-party …

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged man and his company with defrauding investors in a Ponzi scheme involving Bitcoin, a virtual currency traded on online exchanges …