Security News

Seagate to pay millions for forking over employee info to scammers (Help Net Security)
2017-07-31 18:03

A moment of inattention by one of its employees, and Seagate stands to lose tens of millions of dollars. No, the company was not the victim of a BEC scam – instead, it has been dragged to court by...

Email scammers swindle US Supreme Court judge out of $1 milion (Help Net Security)
2017-06-21 20:13

If often happens to less prominent individuals, but this time it happened to a US Supreme Court judge: scammers have managed trick her into wiring the money meant for buying an apartment to a bank...

Scammers Are Using Fake Apple In-App Subscriptions to Make Lot of Money (The Hackers News)
2017-06-13 08:27

In this year's annual event, Apple announced that the company had paid out $70 Billion to developers in the App Store's lifetime and that $21 Billion of the amount was paid in the last year alone....

3 Nigerian Scammers Get 235-Years of Total Jail Sentence in U.S. (The Hackers News)
2017-05-26 02:02

You may have heard of hilarious Nigerian scams. My all time favourite is this one: A Nigerian astronaut has been trapped in space for the past 25 years and needs $3 million to get back to Earth,...

Scareware scammers target iOS users (Help Net Security)
2017-03-28 16:07

A bug in the way that Mobile Safari handles pop-up dialogs has been abused to scare iOS users into paying a “fine” in the form of an iTunes pre-paid card. The iOS scareware scam “This attack was...