Friday, November 20, 2009
Google Removes Offensive Obama Image; Was It Justified?
Saying the host site was serving malware to users, Google has removed a controversial photo of First Lady Michelle Obama from Google Image Search.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Cybercrime Capitalizes on Swine-Flu Fears
Cybercriminals are capitalizing on swine-flu fears by pitching sales of fake Tamiflu, security firm Sophos said.
Networks of fraudsters use spam and malware to direct Web traffic to phony pharmaceutical sites, wrote Graham Cluley, a technology consultant for Sophos.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Twitter Begins Filtering Links
Twitter quietly started checking the URLs that its users post, a security measure aimed at weeding out links to known malware sites.
As online security firm F-Secure points out, the microblogging service “is increasingly targeted by worms, spam and account hijacking” and can easily filter links posted through it.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Beware the Michael Jackson Spam
It didn’t take long for fraudsters to exploit Michael Jackson’s death, as online security firms began reporting email scams using his name to attract victims.
One message contains links supposedly of unpublished photos and a YouTube video of the singer, but the link prompts recipients to download a file that, when opened, opens a legitimate Web page while downloading and installing malware, according to San Diego-based security provider Websense.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Conficker: Don’t Believe the Hype
You may have heard about Conficker, the rogue computer program that might do something dreadful on April 1. The truth is that the threat posed by Conficker is almost entirely theoretical, and that only a handful of dedicated professionals will notice anything out of the ordinary when that date comes around.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Hackers Target Basketball Fans With March Madness Malware
Basketball fans, beware.
Hackers are taking advantage of bracket-related Web surfing and initiating some madness of their own, with tactics as sneaky as spreading malicious software through March Madness blog posts.
Online security company Websense discovered two March Madness-related malware scams earlier this week, one in the form of URLs posted in blog comments that took users to a phony antivirus scanning site, and another as a search-engine-optimization scam that infected basketball-related terms and pushed them to the top in Google.
Monday, February 2, 2009
What Is StopBadware.org?
The nonprofit, StopBadware.org, was thrust into the limelight when Google mistakenly implied that it might be partly to blame for the Google malfunction that erroneously labeled every site on the Internet malicious.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Alarm Raised on Teenage Hackers
Computer security professionals say many net forums are populated by teenagers swapping credit card numbers, phishing kits and hacking tips. The poor technical skills of many young hackers means they are very likely to get caught and arrested, they say.
Monday, April 7, 2008
FTC’s New Educational Antiphishing Videos Fumble the Ball
Of all the methods scammers use when hunting for victims, phishing is one of the most difficult to guard against. Phishing attacks are designed to exploit societal vulnerabilities more than technical flaws, and, in some cases, are extremely difficult to block. Even the best anti-malware software suite can’t stop an end user from willingly revealing personal information, particularly if the Web site being used to collect the data doesn’t trip any high-alert security alarms.
The Federal Trade Commission has taken an interest in educating consumers on the dangers of phishing. To that end, the government organization has prepared three separate 60-second videos on the ways and scenarios a consumer might possibly encounter a phisher.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer
Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in some users. The nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation, which runs the forum, briefly closed the site Sunday to purge the offending messages and to boost security.
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