Gift card offered in text is scam
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 Results View full post on […]
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 which implements FIPS 140-2 level […]
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 social network ploy, is offering […]
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 do the same in reverse […]
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 really aimed at organisations worried […]
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 really aimed at organisations worried […]