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Threat statistics just released by managed security company Network Box reveals that phishing attacks now account for 67 percent of all malware by volume. This compares with just 24 percent in February and 48 percent in March, suggesting that the phishers are continuing to be successful where other...
Read More | 15 Days Ago
One of the best known soccer clubs in the world is tackling the phishing threat and has placed a penalty on the head of those who might try to con their fans on the web. As the annual InfoSecurity Europe show kicks off, so Manchester United has launched the implementation of Extended Validation...
Read More | 23 Days Ago
The Trend Micro TrendLabs Malware Blog is reporting that the volume of totally free do it yourself phishing kits available in the wild on the web had moved past the 400 mark. Ironically, some are even used by phishers to phish other phishers…
Read More | Mar 10th, 2008
Today I received an email from "Halifax bank" that contained the following:
Well, since I didn't even have an account with "halifax bank", it was fairly obvious that this was a scam, and the fact that "halifax" isn't capitalized makes me highly skeptical of the professionality of the whole...
Read More | Apr 27th, 2007
If you're visiting a known site such as Google.com, you're perfectly safe, right? Wrong. New DNS vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Windows 2000 and 2003 severs could potentially allow a DNS server to get hijacked, and redirect a user to a completely different site than they expected to see.
The...
Read More | Apr 16th, 2007
Sometimes you just cannot help it, you find yourself with time on your hands and you go snooping around in places that normal folk just do not venture. So it was with security researcher Michael Sutton who spent an entire day plugging through the Google blacklist, the Google encoded/hashed...
Read More | Jan 8th, 2007
Research published by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) just before Christmas revealed that UK consumers are being conned to the tune of £3.5 billion every single year. The detailed analysis suggests that nearly half of the adult population of the UK has been targeted by a scam, and as many as one...
Read More | Jan 3rd, 2007
Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 has a special bar that turns green when visiting "safe" sites, which it determines if it recieves a special strict security certificate from Microsoft. But, small business owners and corporations are worried that users will leave their sites feeling unsafe, as...
Read More | Dec 19th, 2006 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: Dec 21st, 2006
According to Symantec, 64% of small businesses have seen a surge in the volume of spam received during the previous six months. And it isn’t the only one: whether you talk to ISPs or security vendors, gateway mail filtering services or end users, the message is the same. Spam is on the up, and...
Read More | Oct 31st, 2006
McAfee publish a list of the top 10 spam subject lines, because of the work done by their threat research and filtering labs as well as customer feedback, and the latest for July shows how the spammer is now concentrating more on ID theft and less on helping you achieve sexual satisfaction or...
Read More | Aug 28th, 2006
