There is another widespread phishing attack hitting users of Twitter today.
Messages asking “This you????” followed by a link are being sent via the system to unsuspecting users. If you click on the link you are taken to a fake Twitter login page, where hackers are just waiting for you to hand over your credentials. [...]
Those terribly nice folks at SC Magazine are running a number of online polls on their homepage in the run-up to their awards ceremony at the RSA Conference.
The poll for most popular security blogger caught my eye in particular..
Seriously, there are some awesome security bloggers listed there, and even being shortlisted in such [...]
Sophos is intercepting a large number of malicious emails that have been spammed out around the world, posing as a new settings files for internet users’ email systems. However, attached to the emails is a Trojan horse.
Each email is carefully disguised in an attempt to lure the recipient into believing they are genuine. [...]
Many Twitter users still haven’t got over this weekend’s BZPharma LOL phishing attack, and now a new campaign is being spammed out from compromised accounts directing users to a site selling herbal viagra to improve sexual performance.
A typical spam message reads:
Get bigger and have sex longer. go here http://example.com/?rid=http://callbling.com
where ‘example.com’ can vary.
Clicking on the link [...]
Starting next week, European users of Internet Explorer may expect to see an invitation to choose an alternative browser for surfing the worldwide web.
As part of a settlement of a long-running anti-competition dispute with the European Union, Microsoft has agreed to display a list of alternative browsers to the millions of people who currently use [...]
Well done to the British Office of Fair Trading for dreaming up an imaginative method to raise awareness of scams amongst the general public.
Aside from providing a contact email address for internet users to report scam websites and messages, it has also placed special “Scamnesty” bins up and down the country for recipients to dump [...]
British MP David Wright has found himself in hot water this week after being accused of posting an offensive message about his Tory party rivals on Twitter.
The Member of Parliament for Telford, Shropshire, made the headlines when a message appeared on his Twitter page describing Conservatives as “scum-sucking pigs”:
#iveneverwrotedtory because you can put lipstick on [...]
It’s St Valentine’s Day on Sunday, which means many will be sitting by their email inboxes in the hope of receiving a romantic message from a secret admirer.
However, don’t think that Cupid is the only one who might be firing arrows in your direction. In the past we’ve seen plenty of examples of hackers [...]
As I reported on this blog at the time, last week Mozilla warned that two Firefox add-ons had been found to be infected by malware.
This week Mozilla has updated its blog in order to explain that one of those malware reports was erroneous - and that the detection of a Trojan horse in Version 4.0 [...]
A hoax has spread rapidly over the internet this weekend, claiming that comedian Bill Cosby has died at the age of 72. However, hunting for information about the story can lead your computer into a nasty malware infection.
In what appears to be the latest example of hackers jumping on the coat-tails of a hot [...]