Bogus Facebook profiles used to spread malware are overwhelmingly created to appear female, have an unusually high number of ‘friends’ and often claim to be bisexual, a study of the phenomenon has found. Barracuda Networks’ random sampling of 2,884 active Facebook accounts using its Profile Protector tool set out to…
Bogus Facebook accounts easy to spot, new study finds
Bogus Facebook profiles used to spread malware are overwhelmingly created to appear female, have an unusually high number of ‘friends’ and often claim to be bisexual, a study of the phenomenon has found. Barracuda Networks’ random sampling of 2,884 active Facebook accounts using its Profile Protector tool set out to…
Lax Security Exposes Voice Mail to Hacking, Study Says
BERLIN — It may be tempting to view the illegal interception of telephone voice mails, a practice that has roiled Britain and the News Corp. media empire of Rupert Murdoch, as an arcane tool employed by scofflaw journalists with friends in Scotland Yard. View full post on cellphone security –…
Holiday Mobile Device Shoppers Take Heed: New Study by National Cyber Security Alliance and McAfee Reveals Lack of …
WASHINGTON , Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – Those looking to purchase or receive smartphones and mobile technologies this holiday season should keep cyber safety top of mind. A new national study released … View full post on homeland cyber – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Study: Employees Fall for Email, Social Media Phishing Attacks at Work [VIDEO] (Mashable)
Mashable – [brightcove video=”1336135146001″ /] A recent study surveyed multiple companies and found that 43% of their employees clicked on simulated bad links that led to phishing attacks and malware. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View full post on National Cyber Security
Typosquatting – study reveals the real risks when you mistype a website’s name [VIDEO]
Security expert Paul Ducklin has taken an indepth look at the scale and the risk of the typosquatting industry: registering misspellings of popular website domain names in an attempt to profit from typing mistakes. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
Typosquatting – study reveals the real risks when you mistype a website’s name [VIDEO]
Security expert Paul Ducklin has taken an indepth look at the scale and the risk of the typosquatting industry: registering misspellings of popular website domain names in an attempt to profit from typing mistakes. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
Android’s popularity makes it open target for malware, says study
Android’s surge in popularity has triggered an accompanying surge in malware aimed at the mobile OS, says a new study today from Fortinet. Analyzing the malware landscape this year, the security vendor tracked a 90 percent jump in Android malware families in 2011 compared with 2010. That figure doesn’t account…
Study: Android Apps A Hotbed of Mobile Malware
Android should be proud of its dominate market share, which climbed up to 33% after only four years in the business. With that much success, it’s no surprise that the popular operating system has become the number one target of malware, according to a report from McAfee senior architect Igor…
USB sticks still being used insecurely, Ponemon study finds
USB sticks remain a big security weakness for many UK organisations with many employees using drives for data transport without permission and not bothering to report their loss, a Ponemon Institute study has found. The study polled 451 IT staff in the UK from a global total of 2,942 on…