Harmful HP scan notifications target employees

If you have an email (who doesn’t ?) than you should be careful as users are again targeted with fake messages regarding a scanned document. This time, there is no file attached, instead there is a link included that will redirect users to a website that holds malware: The header of this email has been altered in order to look like it was sent... [Read more ...]

Fake Antivirus spam campaigns on Twitter

Fake Antivirus spam campaigns on Twitter: two new campaigns with spam are now targeting users of social network Twitter and are redirecting them to underground websites that host rogue antivirus and scarware programs, according to GFI. There are short messages involved like: ”a must see LINK”, “young girls are waiting LINK”... [Read more ...]

Blackhat SEO spam is a general problem

If you’ve wondered whether to switch its output to the search engine to another – perhaps more local? – In order to avoid the seemingly ubiquitous poisoned search results, it is no wonder more, high security researcher Zscaler Sobrier Julien has explored the options for you. Search “Buy Windows 7 key” through a series of... [Read more ...]

Yahoo and Hotmail users, victims of targeted attacks

Web mail users at Yahoo & Hotmail have been hit with the same kind of targeted assaults that were disclosed earlier this week by Google, according to security program seller Trend Micro. Trend Micro described similar assaults against Yahoo Mail & Windows Live Hotmail in a weblog post, published Thursday. “It’s an ongoing issue for... [Read more ...]

BitDefender announced launch of free edition of award-winning antispam for Linux mail servers

Provides essential features, free, for increased productivity by blocking spam on Linux-based mail servers. BitDefender, the award-winning provider of innovative web security solutions, today announced the release of Free Antispam for Linux mail servers, which makes use of the same antispam engines that earned BitDefender an ideal track record, with... [Read more ...]

Android OS becomes a target of the Facebook attacks

Sophos Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley agrees with a BitDefender study showing Facebook as a growing assault vector for smartphone malware. Sophos has seen a similar pattern, and Android rings are often the simplest targets, Cluley said in a sit-down interview Tuesday. “The iPhone operates in a more controlled surroundings and the BlackBerry... [Read more ...]

Applications you can outsource

All companies feel a little reserved when it comes to letting others manage their critical applications. In the last few years a new type of vendors made it to the market, a class of vendors that have established reputation for reliability, security and fairness. With them out there it`s a good time to think about outsourcing. Here are some applications... [Read more ...]

Google Instant Preview

Google will display along with the results of a search an image of those websites. The new function is called Google Instant Previews and it is not a big surprise anyway, as the tests begun some time ago. Each Google result will have from now on a symbol to the right displayed in form of a magnifier. If users will click on it it will display in the... [Read more ...]

Messaging security and threats

Maybe you were not aware that the email is the most critical communication tool for a company, but in numbers that means: - an average user in a 1,000 employees company sends and receives about 124 emails a day, while an average user in a larger company can send and receive up to 149 emails daily. - emails represent a 74% of all the “stuff”... [Read more ...]