Monday, February 17th, 2014
Evernote users are being actively targeted with an email spam campaign that tries to trick them into following a malicious link.
Sent from
[email protected] and titled "Image has been sent", the email pretends to be a notification from Evernote that alerts the user to an image he or she needs to check out, ...
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
Private profiles of Instagram users could be made public as a result of a vulnerability that took almost six months to fix.
The flaw would have enabled hackers to change privacy settings within user profiles to expose potentially sensitive photos to the internet, or to lock down popular pages by marking ...
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Friday, October 25th, 2013
There's a big threat wiling around on the Internet right now: A particularly nasty piece of ransomware called Cryptolocker. Many, many organizations are being infected with this malware, but fortunately, there are surefire ways to avoid it and also ways to mitigate the damage without letting the lowlifes win.
What is ...
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Friday, July 19th, 2013
85 percent of U.S. adults with banking accounts are at least somewhat concerned about online banking fraud, according to Entersekt. Such fraud can include phishing, malware, man-in-the-browser and brute force attacks.
While concern is worth noting, it is action that impacts the ultimate health of a financial institution. Seventy-one percent of ...
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
As has been widely reported, high profile users of Gmail - including US government officials, reporters and political activists - have had their email accounts hacked.
This wasn't a sophisticated attack against Google's systems, but rather a cleverly-crafted HTML email which pointed to a Gmail phishing page. Victims would believe that ...
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