This is an unfortunate time for Sony PlayStation and customers due to the recent breach. Anecdotal reports are now coming in that Sony PlayStation who opened up their gaming ecosystem recently has now potentially fallen to a password reset hack. This may not be a hack at all; however, to be cautious, we wanted to … More CyberThreats Daily: PlayStation – Rehacked reloaded?
Another day, another Facejack attack. We see a lot of these sorts of scams, alluringly titled posts – typically with a promise to show you who has been visiting your profile. The latest one looks like this: Actually, if you hover your mouse over the “CLICK 2 SEE YOUR STALKERS” text, you’ll see that the … More CyberThreats Daily: Is your ‘stalker ex’ still creeping your Facebook page?
Win7 infection rates rose during the second half of 2010 even as malware hit rates on XP machines declined, according to official statistics from Microsoft. The latest edition of Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report shows an infection rate of four Win7 PCs per 1,000 in the second half of 2010, up from three Win7 PCs per … More CyberThreats Daily: Win7 machines harder hit by infection as VXers change tactics
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a single tainted digital image may be worth thousands of dollars for computer crooks who are using weaknesses in Google’s Image Search to foist malicious software on unsuspecting surfers. Krebs on Security blogged that for several weeks, some readers have complained that clicking on Google Images … More CyberThreats Daily: Scammers Swap Google Images for Malware
Experts are advising users of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers to disable a recently added graphics engine that can be exploited to take control of end user computers. The web standard known as WebGL opens the browsers to serious attacks, including the remote execution of malicious code. The technology made its debut in … More CyberThreats Daily: New graphics engine imperils users of Firefox and Chrome
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