According to a recent Kaspersky Labs report and survey, things do not look good for online fraud victims. Apparently 41% of victims did not recover any of the lost funds ...
August 25, 2013 at 5:07 pm by Ryan Martin
PayPal phishing schemes drive me mad. I probably get about 5-10 emails everyday across my various work and personal email accounts from phishing sites trying to trick me into ...
August 15, 2013 at 10:54 am by Ryan Martin
Wikipedia is taking steps to ensure that the NSA cannot spy on it or its users by adding encryption to the website wherever possible according to RT. Users that login will now ...
August 5, 2013 at 9:54 am by Ryan Martin
At this week’s Black Hat 2013 conference Microsoft has been busy explaining some of the newest security features for its Windows 8.1 Operating System. Microsoft is ...
August 4, 2013 at 6:54 pm by Ryan Martin
In an interview with the Australian Financial Review the former director of the American National Security Agency (NSA), General Michael Hayden, stated that the Chinese firm ...
July 20, 2013 at 9:54 am by Ryan Martin
According to unconfirmed reports MSI.com has recently been hacked and can distribute Malware code. The report states that cyber-criminals have hacked MSI.com and have altered ...
July 16, 2013 at 12:27 pm by Ryan Martin
Microsoft and other big browser companies often give out “bug bounties” for people who can discover exploits in their software. Microsoft offered up a rather large ...
July 15, 2013 at 7:24 pm by Ryan Martin
Cybercrime is a growing problem of the modern age and on Thursday the European Parliament adopted a new set of rules to fight cybercrime with a more tough stance. The new ...
July 5, 2013 at 7:54 pm by Ryan Martin
According to a new report, by Harris Interactive on behalf of Imperium, 79% of Americans have stated that they are worried about their accounts, for various online services, ...
June 30, 2013 at 2:54 pm by Ryan Martin
According to Opera’s official blog they have recently halted and contained a targeted attack on the company’s internal network. Opera’s Sigbjørn Vik said ...
June 28, 2013 at 10:54 am by Ryan Martin
You thought the NSA were bad right? – Tapping into the internet data of Americans in the name of fighting terrorism and national security. The NSA’s British ...
June 24, 2013 at 10:54 am by Ryan Martin
The Security Experts “Webroot” have revealed a subscription-based criminal DIY mining malware tool. Apparently they found this tool on a Cybercrime forum and the ...
June 23, 2013 at 12:54 pm by Ryan Martin
Facebook revealed in a security update announcement that a bug had made the data of six million users vulnerable. Apparently it was possible to use Facebook’s data ...
June 23, 2013 at 10:54 am by Ryan Martin
The PRISM “scandal” originating the USA has triggered public outcry in the USA as well as across the world. The Pirate Party who are very much anti-American due to ...
June 22, 2013 at 8:54 pm by Ryan Martin
Microsoft, Google and Facebook all joined together recently to demand more transparency about government data requests and being able to reveal details of these to their user ...
June 17, 2013 at 12:54 pm by Ryan Martin
