Mar 10, 2016 | Browser Security, Malware and Exploits
Active users of mobile banking apps should be aware of a new Android banking trojan campaign targeting customers of large banks in Australia, New Zealand and Turkey. The banking malware, detected by ESET security products as Android/Spy.Agent.SI, can steal login...
Mar 9, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security, Sophos
More companies have been caught in phishing scams this tax season. The security company SOPHOS reported in its blog today, that more companies have fallen for the same phishing scams which caught the company ‘SnapChat’. Cybercriminals are targeting...
Mar 8, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
New ransomware infecting Apple OS X surfaced on March 4th 2016, with the emergence of KeRanger. The first inkling of trouble came at the weekend. Users of Transmission – a BitTorrent client widely used on OS X – might have noticed the following warning: Figure 1 – The...
Mar 7, 2016 | General Security
Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email and the man who picked the @ symbol for addresses, has died aged 74. “A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days of networked computers,” Raytheon spokesperson Mike Doble said in a...
Mar 7, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
WASHINGTON: The Internal Revenue Service today issued an alert to payroll and human resources professionals to beware of an emerging phishing email scheme that purports to be from company executives and requests personal information on employees. The IRS has learned...
