Study Finds Malware-Ridden Flash Drives Are Amazingly Irresistible
If you're waiting on a bus and you see a flash drive on a bench, what do you do? What you should do is leave it right where you...
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Epic Data Breach Results in Stolen Accounts for 800k Users
Gamers have become victims again. The gaming company Epic Games, Inc. (Epic) announced a breach of more than 800,000 registered...
Presidential Nominees Used to Bait You Into Malware
Regardless of which side of the political line you reside, an email message promising to show you something damaging to a...
Unique URLs Used for Phishing Increased 150% Over Five Months
Phishing is on the increase. It's no surprise to most. This is because it works. People get a lot of email and those wishing to...
Retail Therapy at Eddie Bauer May Cost More than You Think
If you have done your retail therapy at an Eddie Bauer store this year, your credit card information may have been compromised by...
W-2 Fraud Email Scams Still Raking in the Cash
Earlier in 2016 there was an outbreak of business email compromise (BEC) attacks that targeted W-2 information. These types of...
Thousands of Apple iOS Users Smished... Again
There's a new term in town and it refers to phishing via text messaging. That word, which is likely to come up more frequently...
Study of the Worst Passwords Reveals People Are Not Paying Attention
Every year someone does a study to find out the worse passwords on the web for a given year. For the first few months of this...
Twitter Phishing Victims Hooked 60 Percent of the Time with New Automated Phishing Tool
If phishing spam isn't coming fast and furiously enough for you, some developers from security firm ZeroFox have created an...
All is Not Lost; We Can Thwart Cyber Crime
There once were the good old days when phishing email messages were easy to spot. They were from an unknown person, full of typos...
Walmart Password Recovery Email Coming to You Whether You Asked or Not
Walmart online customers have been receiving unsolicited messages from the company containing links to recover their account...
Fakebank Malware Evolved to Block Your Phone Calls
Yet again, a security company has found a version of malware that has evolved to be more damaging. Symantec found a new variant...