Lately, there is an increase in the number of facebook scams. Below we present a few of them, so that you can avoid any issues. Some of these scams can lead to various malware for both Windows and Linux/Mac operating systems so we recommend that you pay extra attention to similar messages that may appear in the future on [...]
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined Davidson & Co. fined $375,000 over 2007 data breach resulted in the exposure of customer names, account numbers, addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth and other confidential information belonging to about 192,000 customers. Davidson & Co. learned of the breach in January 2008 when it received an extortion note from one [...]
After the serious security flaw discovered last month in the Apache’s httpd web server which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database, the Apache Foundation was hit by another security incident. In less that a year’s time, the Apache website was hacked twice. First one happened in august last year, and this one in the beginning [...]
A malicious advertisement has been found inside the game Farm Town on Facebook. The 9.6 million players are being warned about fake security warnings popping up that are designed to mislead people into paying for antivirus protection they don’t need. Sandi Hardmeier who studies malicious advertisements said the users were redirected from Facebook through several domains and ended up on [...]
Oficla/Sasfis malware is pretty common these days in amazon shopping spam emails. The idea is quite old and simple: you will receive an e-mail with an attachment. The attachment is a zip file and once you extract and run the executable file you become infected. Below we’ll show you some of the details of this attack: You will receive a [...]
A new “trend” on facebook – the US$1,000 Best Buy gift-card. You are supposed to go to a Fan page where you great this great offer : If you click through and are one of the first 20,000 people to become Best Buy fans, you’ll get a $1,000 gift card to spend on electronics. In the last few months Facebook [...]
Recently there is a lot of spam claiming to be from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that have as attachment an executable file, tax-statement.exe and with the following subject: Subject: Underreported Income Notice. Be aware, do not open/run the executable file because it’s actually a malicious file. IRS doesn’t send any kind of notifications via e-mail. This is just another [...]
Google has just introduced a new useful security feature for Gmail accounts. This feature will track and display all suspicious logins to their e-mail accounts. The feature is currently available for the latest version of Gmail, which is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer 7. Using several criteria it determines whether logins are legit or not . If not it [...]
Facebook Phising Email Example ( scam ) Phising Email Headers: Return-path: Envelope-to: XXXX@XX.COM Delivery-date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:16:04 +0200 Received: from cpc1-wiga11-2-0-cust5.pres.cable.virginmedia.com ([77.96.128.6]) by XXXX with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NrXYx-0008Lb-Hb for XXXX@XX.COM ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:16:04 +0200 Received: from 77.96.128.6 by mx0.name.com; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:15:37 +0000 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:15:37 [...]
PayPall as one of the main targets of Phising Attacks has started to encourage users to use Anti Phising Software (Pay Pall is asking UK customers to download software from Iconix ) that should help them identify genuine e-mails . Iconix E-mail ID is a free software that is compatible withe the major e-mail services like Gmail, MSN Hotmail, Windows [...]
