CyberThreats Daily: Your mom, gf, bf – spying on your phone and email?

Three in five parents snoop on their teenager’s email and calling habits, but teenagers themselves are almost as guilty of checking out the communications history of their partners. The survey was conducted by online store Retrevo, which reports that almost half of those under 25 admit to examining their partner’s devices when the partner is … More CyberThreats Daily: Your mom, gf, bf – spying on your phone and email?

CyberThreats Daily: Facebook scams still in all shapes and sizes

Recently a bunch of “Get free item” scams or just fake pages have been spotted on Facebook. Particularly the ones that include links you have to follow and complete certain steps, can turn out very malicious. Here are a few examples: Images are courtesy of Facecrooks, who also commented: “Avoid these and similar Facebook Pages. … More CyberThreats Daily: Facebook scams still in all shapes and sizes

CyberThreats Daily: ATM skimmers – drive-by ATM card theft

If you keep up on the subject, FBI has been recently cracking down on ATM card data theft rings, where scammers attach fake hardware to the front of ATM’s and trick users into entering PIN information, then record the data to logging devices which can be retrieved later. In some cases the attackers use Bluetooth … More CyberThreats Daily: ATM skimmers – drive-by ATM card theft

Elderly Irish millionaire in exile is leaving you millions?

The Irish must be truly blessed with good fortune lately. Just a while ago it was British Prime Minister David Cameron emailing them with a notification they are owed millions by their treasury, but now an exiled elderly Irish lady on her deathbed is about to leave her late husband’s millions to some lucky person … More Elderly Irish millionaire in exile is leaving you millions?

CyberThreats Daily: Google dumps all 11+ million .co.cc sites from its results

Bigger than .org or .uk – but mostly spam and phishing! Google has removed over 11 million .co.cc websites from its search engine results pages on the basis that most of them are far too “spammy”. Whether or not this is a step in the right direction, we’ll leave to you to decide. Read more … More CyberThreats Daily: Google dumps all 11+ million .co.cc sites from its results