The Top Five Best Practices for Network Scanning
The Top Five Best Practices for Network Scanning A network scanner can be a great tool for helping to secure your network and all the systems attached to it, but it is only effective when it is used correctly. If you are only using it occasionally, keeping the results to yourself, or finding the same [...]
“Diablo 3 free download” scam
For the gamers that cannot wait for the official release of Diablo III, the famous role-playing game, and hope to find some leaked releases will only find survey with the “Diablo 3 free download” scam. Trend Micro engineers have analyzed the Google search results for the “diablo 3 free download” keyword and this search will [...]
Fake PayPal emails lead to malware
The users of the well known payment service, PayPal, are under attack with fake emails that looks to come from the e-payment service and asks for help: Dear Customer,We need your help resolving an issue with your account. To give us time to work together on this, we’ve temporarily limited what you can do with [...]
Adobe will patch outdated software for free
As a reaction to the latest release of Creative Suite 6 from Adobe and their statements that they will no longer support patches for critical vulnerabilities in the old versions of the well known software, a lot of users and experts using the software showed their disapproval. As Adobe first announced, the users had only two [...]
New online banking scam
Because the bad guys never sleep and try to come up with new ways of hijacking the bank accounts that have online access, there is a new scam on the market that is simple yet very trusted. The cybercriminals promise protection against online banking frauds that is in fact a fraud ! The latest attack [...]
FBI tries to make social networks and IM services to use wiretapping
FBI is quitely looking for a way to suggest to the top Internet corporations not to contradict with the broadening of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) scope because FBI thinks that the high technology will make their agents unable to commit to the online surveillance communications of suspects. The original wiretapping law, was [...]
Fake Paypal emails holds malware
Paypal is no longer the most phised brand out there, as China’s website Taobao.com became the most phised brand, but still, the cyber criminals are sending emails in the name of Paypal, trying to fool users. A brand new spamming campaign is at large and it sends an email that delivers panic to the reader: ”FW: [...]
Users do not feel safe on Social Media networks
More than 80% of users take into consideration that their personal data might be stolen or misused on the social media websites like Facebook, Twitter or Google+ show a study of Avira. This survey also showed that about 44% of users refered to Facebook and Twitter as their primary concern and another 40% mention other [...]
Malicious emails try to steal from Santander customers (Santander email scam)
Clients of one of the biggest banking groups in the world, Santander, are targeted for the moment with a phishing email message that hides itself into a notification of a scheduled software patch, so watch out how the Santander email scam works: Subject: Santander Online Banking Notice Dear Valued Customer, Santander Online Banking technical services [...]
Win 7 password reset how to (Vista, XP covered)
1. Use the win 7 password reset cd to restore your Windows password Windows Vista and Windows 7 let you burn a password reset disk that you can use in order to perform Win 7 password reset (or Vista) without headaches. The only problem is that you actually have to make this password reset disk BEFORE [...]
The Conficker worm is still a big threat
According to Microsoft, The Conficker worm represents a biggest and active threats to all enterprises. In the latest Security Intelligence Report released by Microsoft the quarterly detections of this worm, the Conficker worm registered a 225 % raise in detection since the beginning of 2009. Only in the last quarter of 2011, the Conficker work [...]
Hotmail remote password reset 0-day bug got patched
A very important security breach that was affecting Microsoft’s email client,Hotmail got spotted almost at the same time by a Saudi Arabia hacker and Vulnerability Lab engineers. Untill a temp fixing was released yesterday by Microsoft it was used by cyber criminals to hijack Hotmail and Live accounts. “The vulnerability allows an attacker to reset [...]
Facebook offers free antivirus solution
Facebook offers free antivirus solution and this a good thing. We are facing an interesting action from the giant social media network, Facebook as the company has made public the fact that it is now partner with top five security organizations and will offer their antivirus solutions for download in the brand new Facebook AV Marketplace. [...]
Watch out for the London Olympics 2012 scams that delivers malware
There only three months untill the London Olympics 2012 will begin and sport enthusiasts are searching infos about the event and also they are trying to buy tickets. But when there are global events like this one, the interest around it will atract cybercrooks too. The engineers at TrendMicro recently discovered an email campaign that [...]
Fake “Steam Cracker” sniffs user informations
The gamers from Valve Steam platform were again targets of malware attackers, this time with “Steam Cracker” This cracker was offered on the well-known video platform Youtube and on several gaming forums, and users were tricked that they will get free access to all games. See the picture below. The criminals behind this attack give [...]