October is the Cybersecurity Awareness month. Awareness is the key to help others to not fall for the most scams. Here is a short list with tips to help you not fall prey to the online predators. A lot more like this is available in the free eBook: Improve your Security ### Never open […]
You probably have read on news portals that Dropbox was hacked and that some user accounts were compromised. Here is the alleged list of leaked user information. Dropbox is saying that the data is not valid. Apparently, Dropbox was not hacked. The company is clearly stating this on their blog. Recent news articles claiming that […]
Because of the huge success of IT Security News website (www.itsecuritynews.info) which aggregates many portals with security news, I decided to replicate the same in German. The list of contributors is not yet as long as the one in English, but it will grow in time. Check the new website: IT Sicherheitsnews auf Deutsch: […]
It seems that the most research on social engineering is done these days by spammers. Using the text “You haven’t been to Facebook for a few days, and a lot happened while you were away”, the spam message contains the trigger which will make many people click on the message: “Your messages will be deleted […]
The idea of offering your product or a version of it for free has been a source of much debate. What is FREE and is FREE really, really, free as in gratis? Idea on writing this article came from reading this article on “Minimum Viable Free Product (MVFP)” by Nathan Taylor. Nathan is talking about “Minimum Viable […]
You probably have heard by now that about 100 VIP iCloud accounts were hacked and photos with these persons naked were disclosed in various forums. I guess that by now it is quite needless to say that the best way… Read more → from Improve Your Security http://ift.tt/1AWOmFO via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
You must have heard of the brand new version of iOS which was release yesterday: iOS v8. While the media is still considering and reconsidering their recommendations for each device on whether or not you should upgrade, here are my reasons to update my iPad 3rd generation. I don’t have an iPhone anymore, I am an […]
Author:Richard Adhikari Article:Botnet Twists the Knife in iCloud Security Reduce, Reuse, Recycle For the record, though, “Waledac and Kelihos both send spam, and this is the reason for the confusion,” IT security expert Sorin Mustaca told TechNewsWorld. Both use email to spread but in different ways. The same group of cybercriminals may have created the code for […]
The summer closes to end soon and we know that the next thing to happen is: children go back to school. Parents are always concerned (for good reasons) for what and how their children will do, and since a couple of years they have other concerns. Their children have smartphones, multiple online identities – parents […]
Stock Spam is back! Did you miss it? I certainly didn’t… What is interesting ? All these emails are unique. They are created for each email address and contain a unique identifier like 7b9212dcf62a731709b131d84f6e1cb8ec6e44d0bba47030be135d9f. This shows to me that they are generated using the same spam generator. They are being sent using compromised accounts […]
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