Posts Tagged ‘malware’
IN THE HEADLINES: Phishing Still Going Strong
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 19, 2011
SC Magazine recently issued a warning about a new approach to phishing that could result in more people falling for a scam that is now more than a decade old. Instead of trying to lure people into clicking on an infected link by pretending to be a bank asking for password verification, the email pretends [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Security Experts Uncover Massive and Potentially Indestructible Botnet
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● July 14, 2011
It’s troubling when one of the most respected groups of security researchers on the planet describes a threat as “indestructible” and “the most sophisticated threat today.” Those were the exact words used by researchers from Russian security firm Kaspersky to describe the growth of a powerful new botnet dubbed TDL-4. A botnet is a network [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Scareware King Makes $100 Million
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● June 22, 2011
I’m sure you’ve heard of scareware by now — fake anti-virus software that warns you of fake malware on your computer in order to trick you into paying real money to get rid of it. Like almost every cybercrime and cybercon in circulation, crooks invest considerable time and money into scams like this because they [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Mandatory Health Care – for your PC?
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● June 17, 2011
Microsoft is advocating what it calls a collective defense against cyber threats, arguing that if cybercrime is a common threat, we should work collectively to protect ourselves. And as part of this approach the company’s security gurus are suggesting that we model this collective response on the way we manage healthcare threats like major pandemics. [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Are We at (Cyber) War?
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● June 16, 2011
Over the last few months there has been growing talk about how the world seems to be plunging into some level of global cyber war as governments, hacking cooperatives, terror groups, and hacktivists all seem to be increasing their attacks on networks, users, and data. Chinese hackers are accused of attacking Gmail accounts and focusing [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: One in Every 20 PCs Infected with Malware
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● June 14, 2011
An online malware scanning tool recently launched by Microsoft has found some type of malware in at least 5% of the computers it has scanned. In the first week after its launch in early May, Microsoft’s free Safety Scanner tool was downloaded and used more than 420,000 times. 20,000 of the computers it was run [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: From Spear Phishing to Whale Phishing
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● June 7, 2011
You’ve probably heard of phishing – those annoying emails pretending to be from a bank, a retailer, or some other reputable organization and trying to trick you into revealing some personal information. There have been many variations on that theme over the years, as crooks move from email to text messaging and even phone calls. [...]
VIDEO REPLAY: Concerns for Small Businesses (with Neal O’Farrell)
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● May 18, 2011
Continuing this week’s attention to National Small Business Week, IDGuardian has stepped back into its video archives to present a special video replay of Neal O’Farrell and his advice for small businesses and strategies against identity theft, credit fraud, and security breaches. These audio and video columns can be listened and or viewed to in [...]
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