A German reader that wants to emigrate to the US expects nothing else than an invitation from the US President Barack Obama to participate to a VISA lottery. Or at least this is what the spammers that send this email think. To make things even more interesting, you also get a gratis […]
I wrote already about spam impersonating various services just to make users click in order to visit a website. Most of the time, it is about online pharmacies. This time, it is Google’s Support impersonated, as if it would contact the user to restore damaged messages. I leave aside the fact the this is technically […]
I wrote before about various tricks that cybercriminals use to attract people to do something (btw, this is called “social engineering”). This time, they make use of the well-known WhatsApp (written like I did and not like in the screenshot below) to redirect users to an online pharmacy website. The […]
If you visit www.truecrypt.org you see this text below. If you install the software, you see it quite a couple of times. The domain www.truecrypt.org is only redirecting now to www.truecrypt.sourceforge.net. There are many articles written on this topic, especially on “WHY?”. WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues This page exists […]
Spotify has become now part of the bigger and bigger group of companies that had their internal network hacked. In an announcement to all users, Spotify says they became aware of some unauthorized access to their systems and internal company data. This is all good, but what exactly has been accessed? Further on, in the blog […]
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eBay, Security Experts Say Database Dump is Fake By Eduard Kovacs on May 23, 2014 It’s uncertain who is behind the attack, but other cybercriminals and scammers are already trying to profit from the incident. Experts have reported seeing a higher number of PayPal and eBay phishing attacks, (links to this blog) and, a post on Pastebin was found offering […]
The value of not paying cyber extortionists By Erin Richey According to Sorin Mustaca, product manager for anti-virus company Avira GMBH, most extortionists negotiate in good faith. “In general, it is not common that the cybercriminals don’t keep their promise. They keep their promise because they want the next victim to pay,” wrote Mustaca in an email […]
I wrote about the eBay data breach where cybercriminals got access to some eBay employees’ credentials and accessed the internal network. Names, email addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and encrpyted passwords were obtained. eBay started a campaign to reset the password of all their users. More information is available in their FAQ. Unfortunately, the breach […]
New Computer Virus? Inform The Crowd Author: EMC Contributor Michael O’Dwyer Sorin Mustaca, an IT security expert at Avira, a global provider of anti-virus solutions headquartered in Tettnang, Germany, says, “the biggest threat when dealing with vulnerabilities or patches is that attackers are faster to use the intelligence than the vendors can create the patch or […]
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