Spammers turn on festive themes December 2011 | Derek Parkinson | Leave a comment Like legitimate merchants, criminals make the most of the holiday season, hoping to snare unwary shoppers with scam emails claiming to come from online stores, banks and credit card companies. “During the holiday rush many users will not pay very … Continue reading → Tweet
UK tops global league for phishing emails October 2011 | Derek Parkinson | Leave a comment The UK is awash with phishing emails, in October becoming the most heavily targeted country in the world with one in every 178 emails a phishing attempt, according to the latest Symantec Intelligence Report. This represents a concentration of phishing … Continue reading → Tweet
Identity Fraud Prevention Week – social networks and phishing October 2011 | Derek Parkinson | Comment (1) National Identity Fraud Prevention Week launches today, raising awareness of the threat of identity fraud at home, and at work. Although 95% of UK citizens now understand the risks, many are still careless both on and offline, according to the … Continue reading → Tweet
RSA malware revealed – more answers to come? August 2011 | Derek Parkinson | Leave a comment The malicious payload sent to RSA in a phishing email – and thought to have cost the company at least $66m to date – has been discovered lying unnoticed in a public database by a security researcher at F-Secure. The … Continue reading → Tweet
Brazil is new front line in global war on spam July 2011 | Derek Parkinson | Leave a comment Spam from Brazil rose almost 4.4% in volume in June, taking the country to second place in the global rankings, accounting for 11.2% of all traffic and second only to India, which was the source of 16.4% of all spam … Continue reading → Tweet
Police swoop on Olympic ticket suspect June 2011 | Derek Parkinson | Leave a comment Following a tip-off from organisers of the 2012 Olympics, the Metropolitan Police have arrested a man suspected of using Twitter to target people who missed out on the rush to buy tickets, and luring them to a website that made … Continue reading → Tweet
Zapchast exploit dangles previews of Windows, Apple releases June 2011 | Derek Parkinson | Leave a comment Consumers eager to find out about the latest products from Apple and Microsoft are being targeted with phishing emails that install the Zapchast trojan on Windows systems, according to security researchers. The trojan opens a back door, enabling the attacker … Continue reading → Tweet
Social media – nobody would be that stupid – or would they? May 2011 | Redaction | Leave a comment Security concerns about social media sites such as LinkedIn were made public almost three years ago, but we remain alarmingly naïve about the dangers, according to a presentation by ISACA consultants Peter Wood and Peter Bassill at Infosecurity Europe. The … Continue reading → Tweet
Note on RSA breach – some obvious dos and don’ts March 2011 | Redaction | Leave a comment What should RSA customers do – or not do – in response to the breach suffered by the company? It is not possible to give a detailed prescription without more detail than RSA has made available – or indeed knowing … Continue reading → Tweet
Government fails phishing test – but is it any worse than the private sector? February 2011 | Redaction | Leave a comment Security audits suggest that if phishing emails are sent to a public body, at least one member of staff will click on an embedded link, and in some cases be persuaded to hand over confidential details such as login passwords. … Continue reading → Tweet
