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You’ve heard in the press that many celebrities and companies got their social media accounts hacked. Twitter even issued an official warning to all press agencies to protect their accounts better. Here are useful tips how to easily protect your account: 1. Protect your social media account with a strong password. Here are some good … Is it a Skype day? Or maybe a Bitcoin one? Or maybe just both? I say this because right after I published my previous post about malware ongoing campaign on Skype, a mate from Venezuela sent me a screenshot of her Skype client with a similar campaign in terms of propagation but different in terms … The surest way to know that an attack method is working for a malware gang is seeing the method repeated over a period of several months. In Commtouch’s October Trend Report we described an attack targeting Android users. Last week saw a repeat of the attack with a few refinements. The main elements: Single link … These days, cybercriminals and other bad guys on the Internet may no longer have to use infostealing Trojans to gather data from users. Users intentionally posting pictures of their IDs, credit cards on Twitter and Instagram are already doing the job for them. I’ve been noticing several young people (and even adults) who post pictures of … For the last two weeks we have been noticing significant increase of PDF exploit attacks being distributed by email with an attached PDF document posing as a fake invoice. However, closer examination of the PDF file has shown that the exploit uses a two-year-old classified as CVE-2010-0188. Why would anyone use so old an exploit? Well … Yesterday, password databases from two popular websites were leaked in an underground forum popular with computer hackers. 6.5 million passwords from LinkedIn and a further 1.5 million passwords from internet dating site eHarmony were divulged following attacks on these sites. LinkedIn has already acknowledged the leak, and have said they are changing the algorithm for … Market share! It’s an easy answer, but not the only one. In 2011, Apple was estimated to account for over 5% of worldwide desktop/laptop market share. This barrier was a significant one to break – Linux maintains under 2% market share and Google ChromeOS even less. This 15 year peak coincided with …
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that telecoms firm Nortel Networks was repeatedly breached by Chinese hackers for almost a decade. The newspaper cited Brian Shields, a former Nortel employee who led an internal investigation into the security breaches, and published claims that the hackers stole seven passwords from the company’s top executives – … var addthis_product = ‘wpp-263′; var addthis_config = {“data_track_clickback”:true,”data_track_addressbar”:false};if (typeof(addthis_share) == “undefined”){ addthis_share = [];} Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) are often legitimate software that pose a risk to users’ privacy or systems. A reasonably secure–or privacy-minded–user may want to be informed of the presence of certain PUPs and in some cases remove them. One very … Many of you may have already noted this from Google’s home page, but for those not reading the fine print or not using Google: Today is International Safer Internet Day, which will have its 10th anniversary next year (if I counted right). Started in Europe by Insafe with funding from the European Commission, this day has become … Symantec has admitted that blueprints for current versions of its pcAnywhere software were stolen in 2006 and that all users are at risk of attack and should pull the plug. That includes users of both current and past iterations as well as those bundled with Altiris and the pcAnywhere Thin Host packaged with backup … |
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