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ICO Fined Sony for the PSN Hacking Back in 2011
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 …
Email Threats Highlights: Chase Phish, LinkedIn, American Express Open and Verizon Wireless Spam
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 …
Phishing Scam Spreads via Facebook PM
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 …
Facebook Graph Search and You
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, …
Phishers Target UnionBank of the Philippines Clients
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 …
Email: The Reports of Its Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
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 …
Running GFI WebMonitor to Support Your Firewall or UTM
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 …
Fake Southwest Airlines Giveaway Flies High Once More
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! …
New Year, New Old Threats
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 …
Twitter Phish DMs: “This profile on Twitter is spreading nasty blogs around about you”
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 …










