Security News

FBI Warns of Increase in DDoS Extortion Scams (Threatpost)
2015-07-31 15:26

Online scammers constantly are looking for new ways to reach into the pockets of potential victims, and the FBI says it is seeing an increase in the number of companies being targeted by scammers...

How to get rid of 'iOS crash warnings' scam popups (ZDNet)
2015-07-16 13:50

Six Nigerians Extradited to US for Alleged Internet Scams (SecurityWeek)
2015-07-13 22:50

For Social Engineering Scams, The Best Security Patch Is Education (Forbes)
2015-07-09 19:12

Webmail password reset scam lays groundwork for serious aggro (The Register)
2015-06-23 04:26

New password recovery scam hitting Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo Mail users (Help Net Security)
2015-06-22 11:37

A simple yet ingenious scam is being used by scammers to compromise accounts of Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo Mail users, Symantec researcher Slawomir Grzonkowski warns. "To pull off the attack, the bad...

Study: 86.2M consumer calls scams, enterprise incidents up 30 percent (SC Magazine)
2015-06-17 20:11

86.2 million phone scam calls delivered each month in the U.S. (Help Net Security)
2015-06-17 10:37

Phone fraud continues to threaten enterprises across industries and borders, with the leading financial institutions’ call centers exposed to more than $9 million to potential fraud each year. Pi...

Week in review: Hiding exploit code in images, online summer travel scams, and Infosecurity Europe 2015 (Help Net Security)
2015-06-08 05:00

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Cookie warnings: Useless and bad for security? Our daily clicking away of these warnings is a time-consuming, costly...

Online summer travel scams to watch out for (Help Net Security)
2015-06-05 07:36

Iovation released a list of common online summer travel scams to watch out for. The company also announced that it has seen a hundred percent increase in online travel transactions made from mobile ph...