Posts Tagged ‘hackers’
IN THE HEADLINES: 12 Things You Can Do to Avoid Banking Trojans
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 30, 2012
With the recent news of the emergence of new and even more potent forms of banking Trojans, it’s time to start taking this threat seriously. Banking Trojans are a highly sophisticated type of malware capable of attacking and emptying online bank accounts without leaving much of a trace; or much in your account. If you [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Data Breaches Off to a Great Start
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 27, 2012
The New Year is barely a couple of weeks old and already we’re seeing some brazen and possibly huge data breaches. Fans of the Huffington Post were greeted a couple of days ago with a Twitter message from the Post that said simply “Sorry about that, Twitterverse! We know we’ve been hacked and are working [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Lessons Learned from the Zappos Hack
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 23, 2012
As facts become clearer about the recent massive hacking attack on online retailer Zappos, experts are speculating on exactly what the hackers will do with that mountain of data. The attack happened about a week ago and the company admitted that hackers had managed to steal the personal information of as many as 24 million [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: New Worm Threatens Bank Accounts
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 19, 2012
Just as a new variety of the Zeus banking Trojan emerged to threaten bank accounts in a creative new way, researchers in Israel report the growth of a close cousin, a computer worm, which may be targeting Facebook accounts as a way to also break into bank accounts. The worm is called Ramnit and was [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Get Used to Premium SMS Trojans
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 17, 2012
If you haven’t already heard of something called a Premium SMS Trojan, consider yourself warned. As Trojan attacks on Android smartphones and tablets soar, not all the attacks are what you would traditionally expect from a Trojan – like stealing your personal information or passwords. A growing number of these Trojans instead use your phone [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Could Your Identity Be Funding Terrorism?
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● December 13, 2011
If you’re still looking for a reason to get more serious about protecting against identity theft, then do it for your country. In a series of recent hacks on customers of AT&T, attackers were apparently able to steal more than $2 million by making fake calls using premium call services. It now appears that the [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: What has Anonymous been up to these days?
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● December 8, 2011
Remember Anonymous, the nameless, faceless hackers that sprang into international stardom after numerous high profile hacks on organizations around the world? Promising at the same time to disband for good and to never go away, the world has been waiting for the next Anonymous victim to fall, especially after the group allegedly promised to “destroy [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Banking Trojans Continue Their March
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● November 22, 2011
There seems to be no end to the damage that can be inflicted by banking Trojans, a very dangerous type of malware highly favored by all kinds of crooks because of the ease with which they can infect computers, empty bank accounts, and enrich the crooks. Some of whom may be on the other side [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: What to Do if You’re a Victim of Scareware
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 26, 2011
Scareware gets its name for two reasons. First, it tries to scare users into believing that their computer is infected with malware so they’ll pay up to get it removed. The second reason isobvious – it’s very scary. Especially when you get numerous and alarming pop-up Windows that just won’t go away. Scareware is a [...]
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