A new Android Trojan program that poses as an SMS management application is sending text messages to predefined premium rate numbers in Europe and Canada, according to security researchers from Kaspersky Lab. Credit-stealing Trojans that send SMS messages or make calls to premium rate numbers were first designed for Nokia’s…
ProtectMyID: Social network accounts should have customized privacy settings, and users should not add “friends” they do not know.
ProtectMyID: Social network accounts should have customized privacy settings, and users should not add “friends” they do not know. View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security Gergory Evans Gregory Evans | LinkedIn Interview With Gregory Evans Gregory Evans Security Expert Gregory Evans on…
Social Media Users Being Warned Of New Online Scams
It is the time of year for holiday cheer and holiday scams. This year, social media sites are the prime target for the “bad guys.” CBS4′s Jorge Estevez shows you some of the tricks hackers use and how to guard against being duped. View full post on social media scam…
Many Tricare users now learning of Sept. data theft
By Steve Vogel The letter that arrived Saturday at the home of Fred MacLean in Fayetteville, N.C., held bad news: Computer backup tapes containing the retired Army chaplain’s personal information with the military’s Tricare health system had been stolen. View full post on computer theft – Yahoo! News Search Results…
TEMECULA: Mall tracking cellphone users during holiday season
The Promenade mall in Temecula is using cell phone tracking techology to monitor the movement of folks in and around the mall during the holiday shopping season. View full post on cellphone security – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security Gergory Evans
Starbucks survey scam targets Facebook, Twitter users
A new survey scam offering free coffee from popular coffee shop chain Starbucks is targeting users of social networking site Facebook and micro-blogging service Twitter. View full post on social media scam – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Steam Hack Confirmed, Affects 35 Million Users
User names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, e-mail addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card numbers may have been accessed. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security
Sextortion targets cell phone users
PHOENIX (KPHO) – If you’re thinking about taking a provocative picture of yourself and sending it on your cell phone, you might want to reconsider. Sextortion has become a serious problem, with crooks stealing those racy photos and putting them online. ASU student Jill Madson, 19, said that she will occasionally…
Hackers poison Brazilian ISP DNS to infect users with banking Trojan
Security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab warn that cybercriminals hacked into the DNS (Domain Name System) servers of several Brazilian ISPs and used them to redirect users to websites that distributed malware. These attacks have occurred in the last few days, but they are not new to the region,…
Smartphone users warned over downloading malware apps
London, Nov 7 (ANI): Smartphone users need to take more precautions to protect themselves from unintentionally downloading malware applications, according to a national computer security campaign. According to Get Safe Online, a UK-based campaign and national initiative to teach citizens about basic computer security, there has been an increase in…
