I have to hand it to cybercriminals, they're wily and they're hard working. They change tactics and techniques continuously to attract new prey and evade detection. Many are successful in tricking even the
Published on: November 21st, 2012 Paul Wood @itbusinessca
Example of a BBB spoofed email by Paul Wood Social engineering reared its ugly head in January. The latest intelligence report from Symantec saw businesses being targeted with emails purporting to be from
Cyber criminals are targeting businesses with malware-bearing e-mails purporting to originate from the Better Business Bureau, according to security software firm Symantec Corp .The same trend was spotted earlier by security company Sophos
Published on: February 29th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca
Cyber-criminals have amassed so many credentials for various social networks and Web services that they are now creating the equivalent of discount factory outlets to sell them off, Trusteer Research reports. The Web
Published on: February 8th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca
by Monica Goyal If you are not a lawyer, you may not have heard of this fraud. Generally, the purpose of the scheme is to persuade a lawyer to take them on as
Published on: November 14th, 2011 Monica Goyal @MonicaNGoyal
by Matt Sergeant Cyber criminals are more aggressive with their social engineering tactics as evidenced in the September 2011 Symantec Intelligence Report. This month, roughly 72 per cent of all e-mail-borne malware contained
Published on: October 12th, 2011 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca
Tumblr is dealing with an aggressive phishing campaign. Only recently launched, it aims to steal log-in credentials and employs many of the well-known social engineering tactics that scammers use on social media sites
Published on: June 28th, 2011 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
The next time a web site says to download new software to view a movie or fix a problem, think twice. There's a pretty good chance that the program is malicious.In fact, about
Published on: May 19th, 2011 Robert McMillan @itbusinessca
After application vulnerabilities, information security professionals are most concerned by the threats posed by mobile devices, a survey has revealed. The 2011 (ISC)2 Global Information Security Workforce Study, carried out by researchers Frost
Published on: February 18th, 2011 Anh Nguyen @itbusinessca
Aside from the festivities of the holidays, one thing that always makes December special is the combination of reflecting on the year gone by, and looking ahead to what the next year might
Published on: December 6th, 2010 Tony Bradley @itbusinessca
Dating scams are a common spam email problem. Spam relating to sex or dating currently accounts for approximately 4 per cent of global spam. In a typical scam, a recipient (male or female)
Published on: September 22nd, 2010 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca
Companies of sizes and in every sector should prepare for attacks similar to the one that prompted Google Inc. to consider pulling its operations out of China.The search engine giant had 20 employees
Of 200 billion e-mail messages sent every day around the world in 2008, 90 per cent are considered spam – double the previous year's volume, according to Cisco Systems Inc.'s annual security report
Published on: January 20th, 2009 Vawn Himmelsbach @itbusinessca
