Security News

Black Friday is widely regarded as the beginning of the US (and increasingly global) Christmas shopping season. Cyber Monday, which comes three days later, was created to persuade people to shop...

The latest variants of tech support scams targeting Apple users have done away with the usual visually prominent error messages. Instead, they open the potential victims’ default communication or...

A data sample provided last month by scammers trying to make a profit by claiming to have breached U.S. credit reporting agency Equifax may have been obtained from unprotected Amazon Web Services...

If you receive a message from any of your Facebook Friends asking for urgent help to recover their Facebook account, since they've added you as one of their 'Trusted Contacts'—just don’t blindly...

A security researcher noticed recently that an Equifax service designed for obtaining free and discounted credit reports had been redirecting users to websites set up to serve adware and scams. read more

DMARC Can Be Effective in Defending Against Targeted Phishing Attacks And Student Loan Scams read more

Employees Still Falling for Email Schemes, Leading to More BreachesEmployees are still falling for phishing scams leading to major breaches, including those related to ransomware attacks, say...

Indonesia will deport 153 Chinese nationals arrested for alleged involvement in a multimillion-dollar cyber fraud ring targeting wealthy businessmen and politicians in China, police said Tuesday. read more

Over the last few years, business email compromise (BEC) scams have rocketed -- costing victims $1.45 billion in 2016 alone (FBI report). Now a new related threat has emerged -- the mortgage...

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: 751 domains hijacked to redirect visitors to exploit kit An unknown attacker has managed to modify the name servers...