Last April of 2011, Sony disclosed the massive hacking of its PlayStation Network (PSN), which exposed 77 million accounts, and warned their users about scams involving identity theft. Almost two years after this incident, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined …

In this week’s Email Threats roundup, we are highlighting spam and phishing campaigns that have made a comeback, such as LinkedIn and Chase spam, but take advantage of different social engineering lures this time around. You Know It’s Awkward When…you …

We’ve seen a number of cases wherein phishers have used compromised Twitter accounts to send direct messages (DMs) to their followers. We’re now beginning to see this same tactic used in Facebook in the form of private messages (PMs), and this isn’t …

On January 15, Facebook announced its search feature called Graph Search and since then, people can’t seem to stop talking about it. Graph Search is marketed as a comprehensive way for people to navigate through connections on Facebook and make them useful, …

We have been alerted by an ongoing phishing campaign that targets clients and online banking users of the UnionBank of the Philippines. The phishing URL, which is being sent to users in the form of spam, is found hosted on …

The current consensus among the “cool crowd” of tech pundits seems to be that email is dead. Instant messaging and social networking have supposedly made it obsolete. They’ll tell you that business is moving toward a more “real time” model …

Many firewalls and UTM devices have a basic level of web filtering included; so why would you want a dedicated web filtering proxy as well? Several vendors try to pack as many security features into their firewalls and UTM appliances …

click to enlarge A fresh campaign fake Southwest Airlines free ticket scam has made its way onto Facebook again, this time as an event invite spammed within the network. Southwest Airlines is giving two tickets to any destination within the United States! …

If there’s one thing we have to remember about certain Web threats—specifically those related to social networking and social media sites—and email threats, it is this: oftentimes, they come back to haunt us. Case in point, we have found an old …

Looks like 2013 is off to a phishy start, with the following missive doing the rounds on Twitter via DMs on compromised accounts: FYI this profile on twitter [url removed] is spreading nasty blogs around about you Click to Enlarge …