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
Targeted malicious attacks worth US$1.3bn to cyber criminals Cyber criminals are shifting their stratagem away from mass spam attacks to more targeted, malicious-style attacks, such as spearphishing. Cisco estimates the overall cost of targeted attacks to organisations worldwide is US$1.29bn annually. A new report by Cisco suggests cyber criminals have made a fundamental shift in … More CyberThreats Daily: Attacks yield $1.3bn to cybercriminals while UK Police hit by Conficker worm
Facebook privacy: security concerns If Facebook was a country, it would be the third largest one in the world (http://blog.eset.com/2011/05/04/osama-bin-laden-is-alive-and-well-on-facebook). All those Facebook users are exposed to the many social networking risks and nuisances that are regularly reported nowadays. Paul Laudanski’s wrote a comprehensive blog article which is a timely and essential guide to a … More Monthly Threat Report: May 2011
Irish computer users are on the receiving end of another nasty spam. Pretending to be from the Bank of Ireland it claims users will receive a new credit card, but that they will also have to activate their current one online if they wish to continue using it. Attached is a supposed “activation” information file, … More CyberThreats Daily: A new twist on an old scam
Feature Article: 419s Still a la Mode Urban Schrott, IT Security & Cybercrime Analyst, ESET Ireland After being around for years (hundreds of years, if you trace it back through the ancient Spanish Prisoner scam), and with relatively few different twists to the main plot, I’d imagine by now that pretty much everyone would recognize … More Monthly Threat Report: April 2011
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