Apple iTunes Phishing Emails

Please be aware that Phishing emails are still alive and kicking – be reminded that every time you receive an email suggesting that something is wrong with your account on a well known service or website, that you need to check a few things: Did the email FROM...

Computer scammer in the UK given suspended sentence

In what is being hailed as a ‘landmark’ legal case, a computer scammer in Luton, UK was given a suspended 4 month prison sentence and ordered to pay £5,665 ($9,421) compensation and £13,929 ($23,165) in prosecution costs. Mohammed Khalid Jamil (34) of...

American Law Firm loses entire server to CryptoLocker

Techworld  – a small American law firm in North Carolina has lost their entire server full of documents to the CryptoLocker malware.  After attempting to pay the ransom, they learned that their efforts to pay were too late. This particular firm fell victim to a...

The Yahoo Breach – Yahoo Passwords Hacked

Yahoo has announced that an unidentified number of their email accounts have been compromised – which has lead to Yahoo passwords being hacked – they claim that the breach of usernames + passwords came from a third-party database. Speculation is that the...

How Target was Hacked

First Target was hacked, then Neiman Marcus – there might still be other retail giants with hacked systems which we don’t know about – and the retail giants’ IT security being compromised so badly is a big shock to the public, who trust these...