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...
Mar 2, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
Nigerian Email Scams, sometimes known as 419 Scams (after the international phone code for Nigeria) are nothing new. They often purport to come from some wealthy individual who has left you some vast fortune in the form of an inheritance – of course,...
Feb 29, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
The disappearing message app ‘SnapChat’ is famous for the so-called ‘anonymity’, which has famously been caught using screen capture and used to embarrass or blackmail those who used the service. Over the weekend, it was announced that one of...
Feb 26, 2016 | Computer Security Solutions, Cyber-Crime, General Security, Kaspersky Labs Products + News, Malware and Exploits, Sophos
While the name ‘locky’ seems like a rather benign or cheerful name for a ransomware threat, the malware itself is no joke. This particular threat is so named because it renames all your files with a ‘.locky’ file extension – after it...
Feb 16, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
In a research survey by Balabit, the most common method of entry into an organization is … Insider Access. Balabit surveyed whether IT professionals consider the outsider or insider threats more risky – noted that those attacks that are started from...
Feb 12, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
Facebook and other Social Media sites setup ‘age limits’ when they opened themselves up for public use – however, many young children simply lied about their age and joined up to use the popular social media sites. This means, that when they opened...
