Hackers use anti-adblocking service to deliver nasty malware attack

Monday, November 2nd, 2015

More than 500 websites that used a free analytics service inadvertently exposed their visitors to a nasty malware attack made possible by a hack of PageFair, the anti-adblocking company that provided the analytics. The compromise started in the last few minutes of Halloween with a spearphishing e-mail that ultimately gave the ...

Windows 10 Upgrade Spam Carries CTB-Locker Ransomware

Monday, August 3rd, 2015

In the week since a free upgrade to Windows 10 was made available, users have learned a of about a host of built-in privacy and security issues, the most troubling being a native feature called Wi-Fi Sense that grants access to your Wi-Fi network to contacts stored in a host of ...

Google Aims at Phishing with Password Alert

Wednesday, April 29th, 2015

Phishing pages are tricky by nature: they look like standard login pages, but are actually faux sites run by people looking to receive and steal passwords. Google is taking steps to thwart this common and dangerous trap with its Password Alert service. Password Alert is an open-source Chrome extension that ...

How to tell if a shortened link is secure in 2015

Sunday, December 21st, 2014

If you hang out a lot on social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook, you have encountered countless links that were shortened. What is meant by that is that proxy links tend to get posted on these sites that do nothing but redirect you to the real site when you ...

Darkhotel APT Malware Targets Global CEOs Using Hotel Internet

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014

A seven-year-old cyber espionage campaign has targeted senior level executives from large global companies by using a specialized Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), zero-day exploits, and well-developed keyloggers to extract information from them when they stay in luxury hotels during their business trips. The researchers at Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky Lab dubbed ...