Another week, another roundup of noteworthy email threats for the week. For this release, we’re covering the dates of December 10 to 14. “Mailbox Upgrade” Email is a Phish. If you’re using Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, I’m sure you’re familiar …

2012 has been an interesting year not only for the security industry but also across other industries that touch on information, technology, gaming and anything social online. We have seen big feats, victories and oftentimes some failings we can only …

While this might be the most wonderful time of the year, there are just too many Grinches on the Internet looking to make ruin your Yuletide cheer. Don’t let them. Forewarned is forearmed, and we’re putting together a list to …

Cyber Monday: With consumers spending up to $1 bn in online sales on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), they are expected to begin round two today as they look for more great bargains and knock a few more items off …

What happened on DeviantART at the weekend? This happened. Click to Enlarge While I’d love to leave it at the analysis above which is stated as being “ERMERGERD HACKERZ”, the antics at the weekend focused on swiping the accounts of …

As November winds down and we start to hit the holiday season, you’ll be cranking up on that workload, and very soon your boss is going to be asking you about the projects you want to take on in 2013. …

A new wave of rogue direct messages (DM) are making rounds in Twitter once more. Instead of the message “lol ur famous now”, as we’ve documented before, which coupled the Facebook link leading to a phishing page, the criminals behind …

Phishing attackers are always looking for a new angle, and the latest attacks making the rounds look to fool victims using LinkedIn Reminders as their angle. Unlike so many other phishing attacks that are seen every day, these actually look …

Here’s a rather long winded scam all based around the idea that distracting the victim budding account-thief with nonsense is a very smart gameplan. In fact this one rambles on so much I had to chop some of it out …

We’re starting off this roundup with a quick recap of what has transpired this week. First off, the US Elections last November 6: As expected, election-related threats have continued to make rounds that day. We won’t be surprised if we …