Have you received a text message offering you a free Walmart gift card? Despite the attraction of a $1,000 gift card, the Better Business Bureau is warning consumers that the Walmart gift card text message is a smishing scam. View full post on credit card scam – Yahoo! News Search…
Laptop users offered simple full-disk encryption upgrade
Security company ST Electronics has shown a new hard drive enclosure that can be used to upgrade a laptop running any operating system to full-disk encryption without the need for drivers or BIOS modifications. The DigiSAFE DiskCrypt is a 2.5 inch enclosure which comes with its own hardware cryptographic module…
Android malware victims offered free WinPhones by MS
Microsoft is offering free Windows phones to Android malware victims, providing they are prepared to tell world+dog about their problems. The marketing stunt – already given the hashtag #droidrage on Twitter – follows a run of publicity about android malware. Ben Rudolph (@BenthePCGuy), the Microsoft Windows Phone “evangelist” behind the…
Facebook users offered app to scan for malicious links
Facebook users worried about the risk of clicking on malicious links while using the social networking service are being offered a new app web that filters friend from foe. Available as a live beta, ShareSafe from F-Secure uses “patent-pending” technology to scan links users plan to send to friends, or…
DDoS cloud protection service offered to worried companies
With DDoS attacks at epidemic level, Imperva has announced a new cloud service it claims offers a practical way to fend off the menace up to multi-gigabit level. Built on top of infrastructure from the company’s cloud division Incapsula using Imperva’s own SecureSphere Web Application Firewall, Cloud DDoS Protection is…
DDoS protection service offered to worried companies
With DDoS attacks at epidemic level, Imperva has announced a new cloud service it claims offers a practical way to fend off the menace up to multi-gigabit level. Built on top of infrastructure from the company’s cloud division Incapsula using Imperva’s own SecureSphere Web Application Firewall, Cloud DDoS Protection is…