Free Stones tickets? How about free One Direction tickets if you’re a little younger? A new Facebook bait-and-switch scam is spreading across friendship circles promising one or both; but users should file this one under ‘too good to be true.’
Email Attackers Switch to ‘Blitzkrieg’ Tactics to Maximize Impact
Agari TrustIndex reports cyber gangs are increasingly ‘weaponizing’ their malicious emails with sophisticated threats
Iran’s Operation Saffron Rose Points to Increasing Cyber-espionage Sophistication
FireEye has identified a hacking group inside Iran that is behind Operation Saffron Rose, one of the first espionage campaigns from Iran that went after US aerospace companies and Iranian opposition inside and outside of the country.
NSA Accused of Installing Backdoors on US Tech Exports
Latest Snowden revelations hit new spy agency head Mike Rogers’ attempts to promote greater transparency
Fresh Phishing Scam Aims at Google Account Passwords
Hackers have been stealing Google account passwords in a new and better crafted phishing attack that is hard to catch with traditional heuristic detection, warns Bitdefender. A particularity in how Google Chrome displays data using Uniform Resource Ide…
HMRC Acted Unlawfully in Hiding Details of Spyware Investigation
Judge rules in favor of Privacy International after criticizing HMRC department for failing to reveal details of an investigation into British business Gamma International. The Andover-based firm was accused of breaking export restrictions.
Point-of-Sale Malware Has Become Highly Sophisticated
Point-of-sale (PoS) systems that process debit and credit cards for retail stores and restaurants are in the dubious limelight these days thanks to high-profile hacks at Target and elsewhere. But PoS malware has been lurking around for a very long time…
Interview: Trey Ford, Global Security Strategist, Rapid7
If you know of Trey Ford, it will probably be as former General Manager at Black Hat. But as of January 2014, he became global security strategist at Rapid7. At Infosecurity Europe, Infosecurity editor Eleanor Dallaway sat down with him to talk about t…
Cybercrime Boss Offers Ferrari Prize for Most Lucrative Online Attack
New video highlights the problem legitimate organizations have in recruiting the best talent
Cybercrime Boss Offers Ferrari Prize for Most Lucrative Online Attack
New video highlights the problem legitimate organizations have in recruiting the best talent