Spam email pretending to come from David Cameron phishing for people’s personal info. We have to admit, we found the latest spam to hit Irish mailboxes rather comical. Apparently Great Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron is mailing individuals in Ireland to tell them the British Government owes them an overdue inheritance of £2.5 million. … More British Prime Minister spamming Irish mailboxes?
Citigroup has revealed almost twice as many people were affected by the data breach in May than originally believed – some 360,000 North American customers. The company has reissued credit cards to some 217,600 customers. John Kennedy has more on SiliconRepublic. Got Hacked? You have 48 hours to fess up Or so the current legislation … More CyberThreats Daily: Citi reveals full extent of cyber attack – 360,000 customers hit
We have seen a lot of activity by hackers lately. The Sony affair is still unfolding, as Sony says that personally identifiable information might have been stolen, but worldwide daily new examples of successful hacking are revealed. LulzSec hacks US Senate’s web site Hacker group LulzSec says that it has recently hacked the US Senate’s … More CyberThreats Daily: Hacking again in spotlight as LulzSec hacks US Senate’s web site
ESET’s Director of Technical Education Randy Abrams has been keeping himself very busy with keeping us safe. Here’s are some of his latest findings, regarding hacks and fake Windows updates. Citigroup Hacked – Sometimes it is all About the Money A New York Times story reports that Citigroup has disclosed that it had suffered a … More CyberThreats Daily: Hacks and fake Windows updates
This seems to be my week for flagging password-related blogs. Well, there are plenty of stolen password issues around. So here’s a blog in stark contrast to Urban Schrott’s blog about good password practice in Ireland (which I expanded on here and here). Troy Hunt ran an analysis of the subset of stolen Sony Pictures … More CyberThreats Daily: A Nice Pair of Breaches
ESET Ireland 