AZCentral.com - DALLAS - All the publicity about identity theft - reportedly the fastest-growing crime in America - has spawned a cottage industry of products offering protection. Companies such as credit bureaus and insurance firms offer credit monitoring, identity
Nearly 62% of Identity Theft Victims Are Notified of Crime by PR […]

eBay, probably one of the most popular companies for phishing alias’, is having a difficult time trying to keep phishers out of their networks. Despite their best efforts, there always seem to be gaps that hackers, like Vladuz, are constantly finding. The reasoning behind this is because there are probably a plethora of […]

Computerworld Australia - Phishers have become more sophisticated, using “phishing without a lure’’ techniques, such as pharming, spear phishing, Google phishing and Wi-phishing, to reel into customer account information without the customer ever entering personal account

Recently, there was a contest where the prize was a fully patched MacBook Pro. The way to win it was to be the first one to hack into it. Well, in under 12 hours, someone was able to uncover a Safari vulnerability that would allow one to gain full user rights on a […]

CNET News - Click fraud seems to be following a similar path as other online fraud schemes such as spam and phishing–the problem is growing as fraudsters fine-tune their methods,” said Tom Cuthbert, president and chief executive of Click Forensics. Google
Spam fightersMac Central - Spamfire also includes a revenge feature that lets […]

It just goes to show you that everyone can be the victim of a hack, no matter what your status may be in society. Take Lendsey Lohan. Recently, she has been hacked in multiple avenues, including her Myspace page, her blackberry, and her email accounts.
Lindsay Lohan’s private MySpace account, Blackberry and Gmail accounts […]

Network World Fusion - computers to the Web in public settings such as airport lounges or coffee shops are handing out enough personal clues to give attackers plenty of ammunition to make them the target of their malware or
Better than the Average Security DeviceeWeek - We did have the […]

Recently, there has been a massive increase in the amount of single victim phishing attacks, also known as ’spear’ phishing. Spear phishers primarily create emails that target specific individuals to make them look more authentic. While you will not see as many spear phishing attacks in the public realm, they are dramatically increasing […]

ZDNet - Complexity in rootkits is growing at a phenomenal rate, allowing malicious software to burrow deep and potentially go undetected inside Microsoft’s Windows platform, according to a security report released Wednesday by McAfee. Rootkits–malicious
Spammers, hackers seize on Virginia Tech shootingsInfoworld - Spammers and hackers are using the slayings at Virginia Tech […]

One can’t help but be disgusted at the levels some will go for money. Especially when dealing with malware developers, this isn’t anything new. Malware spam has been distributed to email accounts everywhere promising video footage of the Virginia Tech Tragedy. Upon opening the email and running the attachment, a malicious screensaver […]