Security News

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...

Nigerian man sentenced to 3 years for phishing scam targeting gov't workers (SC Magazine)
2015-05-22 17:11

Windows Live ID scam targets personal information (Help Net Security)
2015-05-22 07:00

Kaspersky Lab experts are warning of a new scam that uses Windows Live ID as bait to catch personal information stored in user profiles on services like Xbox LIVE, Zune, Hotmail, Outlook, MSN, Messeng...

FTC slaps orders on alleged diet pill spamvertising scam scum (The Register)
2015-05-08 15:10