phishing
Why Twitter's two-factor authentication isn't going to stop media organisations from being hacked
Twitter's new two factor authentication system will be welcomed by some users, but ignored by others who will find it a nuisance.
Notably, it's unlikely to be much use at all to media companies who have suffered at the hands of hackers, as Graham Cluley explains.
It's VKontakte, *not* Vikontakte. Twitter phishing, Soviet-style
With a cybercrime plan as poorly thought out as this, maybe it's no wonder the Soviet Union didn't survive.
Phishers waste woman's £1m life savings on cheeseburgers, champagne and gold
Crooks who swindled a woman out of her £1 million ($1.5 million) life savings, and blew their ill-gotten gains on cheeseburgers, gold and computers, are now facing jail time.
Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week
Catch up with all the security news from the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
Beware Twitter "password check" sites - there are fakes, and there are fake fakes!
After a widely publicised hack or data breach, you'll often find "password check" sites springing up.
Some of them are legitimate, but other password check sites are as bogus as they sound on the surface...
Mali offers free .ML domains to anyone. What could *possibly* go wrong?
It's good news if you're a cybercriminal.
But probably not something that's going to do much good for one of the world's poorest countries.
Linkless Italian phishers quote Shakespeare in an attempt to defeat security products
O, frailty, thy name is insecure pet supply website operators...
Spammers think quoting Hamlet is a way to help them steal usernames and passwords - but they're wrong.
Monday review - the hot 13 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days with this handy weekly roundup
Spicing up phishing attacks
Phishing is often regarded as old hat. From a technical perspective, it's a case of 'been there, done that'. Sometimes however, we come across attacks that are just a little bit more interesting (or at least different) from the norm.
Five Slovenians arrested for $2.5M email banking fraud
Slovenian police on Thursday raided 12 homes and arrested five Slovenian citizens in connection with sending malware-packed email to small and medium businesses' accounting departments.
Evernote shoots itself in foot over "never click on 'reset password' requests" advice
Have you taken a close look at the email that Evernote has sent out, with the subject line "Evernote Security Notice: Service-wide Password Reset"?
It looks like the hacked company has made a blunder.
Oxford University blocks Google Docs because of phishing attacks.. for 2.5 hours
Flooded with phishing attacks, which staff and students were falling for, the IT team at Oxford University blocked access to Google Docs - hoping to wake up users to the threat..
Would such a technique work in your organisation?
Google says it is winning the war against Gmail account hijackers
Account takeovers are down a mammoth 99.7% compared with what they were at the height of the spear-phishing plague of 2011, the company (rightfully) brags.
Do not relax: such success doesn't let us users off the hook when it comes to account security beef-up.
Phishing attack attempts to steal Google passwords via Red Cross website
"Please log into Google Docs, and then you'll be able to read my message."
"I've provided a handy link..."
Phishing attack against MSN/Hotmail users - a new year, but old tricks still persist
You would like to think that computer users are getting smarter about securing their systems, and not falling for the age-old tricks used by cybercriminals.
However, we still see our fair share of elementary unsophisticated attacks designed to steal credentials from the unwary.
PayPal phishing scams - take care of yourself online this Christmas
PayPal users are being targeted in what is a now-typical pattern of phishing against the global payment service.
The trick is short and simple: you receive an email "acknowledging" a smallish payment. It's $79 to an eBay advertising service in our example...
How to report a computer crime: Phishing attack
What would you do if you unwittingly became a victim of a phishing attack? Do you know how you'd go about reporting the phishing to the authorities?
Phishing attack promises a free version of Windows 8
On Friday, Microsoft launched Windows 8 to consumers.
Today, the experts at SophosLabs have intercepted a phishing attack which plays upon interest in the new operating system.
Huawei UK makes a blunder with its online careers page
Chinese technology giant Huawei, under the spotlight following US concerns that its technology could be used for undercover surveillance, has made an elementary mistake in regards to its UK careers page.
India spews more spam than ever before, report finds
You can thank India for one out of six spam messages in your inbox, up from one in 10 when SophosLabs last put out its list of the Dirty Dozen top spam-relaying countries. The UK has upped its spam output as well, meaning it's rejoined the dirty dozen after an 18-month hiatus.
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