Blog Posts Tagged with "Email"
Microsoft Continues Crusade Against Botnet Masters
May 04, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Google began alerting the registrants of more than three dozen Gmail accounts that were the subject of Microsoft’s subpoenas... The email addresses were already named in Microsoft’s initial complaint posted at zeuslegalnotice.com, which listed nicknames and other information..."
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Five Steps to a Successful Social Attack
April 30, 2012 Added by:Neira Jones
You might not fall for these attacks, but how many members of your family would? How many employees in your organization would, from field staff to C-level execs? Different people will have different thresholds to these attacks. Security education and awareness is key...
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Using a Website’s Contact Us Form to Create a Phishing Attack
April 19, 2012 Added by:Chris Murrey
We all have come across websites that have the forms that say “contact us” or something similar. What’s the big deal? These forms have been around forever, right? When an employee finally gets the message, they are automatically put at ease, and become trusting of the content...
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UK Proposes Monitoring Every Email, Call, and Text Message
April 10, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Law enforcement would have access to IP addresses, email addresses, when you send an email, and corresponding data for phone calls and text messages. The government has claimed this is needed to fight terrorism, but it would be available to law enforcement for all purposes...
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Spoofed Email with Keylogger Malware Costs Company $100,000
April 04, 2012 Added by:Headlines
In one complaint received by the IC3, a business claimed their computer was infected with a virus after opening the attachment in the e-mail they received. As a result, the business lost nearly $100,000 when fraudsters successfully wired money from the company's bank account...
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Hacker Pleads Guilty to Celebrity Computer Intrusions
March 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Chaney admitted he hacked into the e-mail accounts by taking the victims’ e-mail addresses, clicking on the “Forgot your password?” feature, then re-setting the passwords by answering security questions using publicly available information he found on the Internet...
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Millions of US Government Email Addresses for Sale
March 19, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
An underground black market is offering 2,462,935 U.S government email addresses and another 2,178,000 U.S military email addresses for sale. The risks are really serious, as this information could be used by hostile government in cyber attacks and cyber espionage activities...
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Spoofed LinkedIn Messages Serving BlackHole Exploit
March 19, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Be advised that there are fake Linkedin invitation reminders in circulation sending users to a BlackHole exploit which attempts to drop Cridex onto the PC. Cridex is a rather nasty piece of work that does everything from target banks and social networking accounts..."
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It's Not the Spam Email But What Lies Behind Them
March 16, 2012 Added by:Alan Woodward
The fact that such large proportion of home machines host unknown malware hides a bigger threat. By hijacking so many PCs it is possible to mount a massive probing operation that can seek out high value targets that are susceptible to classic hacking attacks...
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A History of Google's Government Sales
March 15, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
Every technology company sells to the government, and compared to Microsoft and Apple the google numbers are pretty low. But since Google is more intimate with our search habits and email content than anyone else, these statistics still make me a little uncomfortable...
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Yet Another Chinese-Based Targeted Malware Attack
March 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The payload is also an advanced persistent threat - extremely difficult to detect once inside the network. Although it’s more than a week old, the backdoor still has poor detection, with only 7 of 42 antivirus solutions able to detect it..."
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Waledac Spam Botnet Evolves into Password Sniffer
February 20, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Researchers form Palo Alto Networks have detected a new variation of the briefly defeated Waledac spamming botnet, but this version is able to sniff out login credentials for several email protocols as well as files with the .dat extension related to BitCoin and FTP...
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FBI Bitten by Operational Security
February 14, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
Employees forward confidential calendar events and messages to personal calendars and personal email accounts. This may make their jobs easier but it can put their companies at risk. A recent security incident involving the FBI can teach us something about corporate security...
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KPN Hack: Why was Customer Notification Delayed?
February 13, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The login credentials were stored in plain text in the repository that had been exposed, and that is absurd. This is a failure of the basic security procedures that should be recognized internationally, and is an offense for which there should be heavy penalties...
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Tax Season Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns
February 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Due to the upcoming tax deadline, US-CERT reminds users to remain cautious when receiving unsolicited email that could be part of a potential phishing scam or malware campaign. These messages may appear to be from the IRS and ask users to submit personal information...
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How They Do IT: Spam Filters
February 09, 2012 Added by:Alan Woodward
The current volumes of spam email are extraordinary. Between 70% and 80% of all email sent are spam. As none of the current methods described here are completely effective, there is still scope for much further research in this area...
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- Follow Up to the Out of Band Authentication Post
- Skype Malware Campaign Spreading Poison Ivy Trojan
- I Hope Edo is Worth the Privacy Risk
- Dutch MoD Innovation Competition 2012: CYBER Operations 2.0
- NIST Workshop: The Technical Aspects of Botnets
- Security Automation by Hand - Batch/Bash/FOR
- Who Are You Preaching to Anyway?
- Some Observations on Klout Scores
- Where Will the Buck Stop in Cloud Security?
- How Does Your Bank Protect Your Data?