Blizzard issues World of Warcraft security alert over auction house scams
Blizzard, makers of the hit online game World of Warcraft, issued a security alert today after a spate of unauthorized logins and player reports of "money laundering" scams.
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Banks “ignore early warnings” of cyber attacks, says Australian security chief
Banks should look to spam emails and their own server errors as a source of information, says Nicholas Scott of National Australia Bank (NAB), speaking at the RSA Conference Asia-Pacific in Singapore.
Cybercriminals use photo‑sharing to snare victims in auction scams, FBI warns
Cybercriminals are using online car auctions and photo-sharing services to dupe victims into downloading malware, the FBI has warned. Once infected, the victims are led to fake websites to buy cars - and when they pay up, the criminals vanish.
Support scam cold‑calling: the next generation
Stop me if you’ve heard this before... While I was in London recently for the InfoSec exhibition and some other meetings, my wife received a call from a lady with a heavy Indian accent, who told her that she had errors on her computer caused by viruses, and offering to remove them for her. For a fee, of course…
Parents need to teach pre‑school children to use the internet safely
Pre-school children should learn to get to grips with technology and its problems, argues David Harley, ESET Senior Research Fellow.
Preventable errors are behind most security breaches, says Verizon report
Most cyber attacks are simple and predictable, relying on basic tactics and preventable employee errors, according to Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report. The problem is made worse by the fact that companies often take months or even years to detect such breaches.
Online PC Support scam: from cold calling to malware
Here's a brazen fake antivirus program that falsely declares you are infected, then locks your screen and asks you call a toll free number for Support, which then asks you to pay to remove the fake infection.
Supermarket security breach puts 2.4 million credit cards at risk
Up to 2.4 million credit cards may have been compromised after St. Louis grocery chain Schnucks was targeted with malware, the chain revealed this week.
Beware scammers preying on Boston Marathon tragedy
In the wake of the cowardly and despicable bombings in Boston today, people who want to help need to be wary of appeals for money for victims or schemes like retweeting and "Likes" on Facebook.
Nine out of ten employees knowingly ignore cyber safety policies
The biggest cyber security problem large companies face could be employees - a survey reveals that nine out of ten employees knowingly ignore or violate their company's data policies.
Android app store has serious clean‑up with 60,000 apps removed
60,000 Android apps were removed from Google’s Play app store this February. Categories such as personalization (ringtone apps) were targeted heavily, with 12,277 deletions.
Don’t save that date – bogus wedding invitations are latest spam trend but also deja vu
Emailed wedding invitations have popped back up as a way to distribute malware Will this tactic join other malware-email staples like malicious tax season messages.
Criminal hacking continues to cause headaches for Yahoo members
Malicious spam may still be spreading across Yahoo! Mail accounts. We show you how to turn on the added verification process that Yahoo! offers.
Job Scams: Nice Work If You Can Get It
The new ESET blog format must be striking a real chord with people. At any rate, job offers are just pouring in. Except that they don't seem to be jobs for security bloggers, or for web developers like the team that maintains this site.
Tax‑related scams plague IRS and taxpayers
Answers to common questions about tax season scams in America and advice about fending off the malicious activity that seeks to exploit tax matters.
Phishbait: not so much a Smile as a rictus
Below, you can see the textual part of a bank phishing email I received today (it also contained a Smile logo, which was the only graphical content). Here’s the message text from the phishing email: Dear Account Holder, Do you know that with Smile Internet banking, you can eliminate the cost of receiving and transferring
Scam conference invites: a tale of several cities
An invite to a conference in California proves to be a scam, and a very similar spam claims the very same conference is taking place in New York in March.
It’s a wonderful hoax
In a world where nothing seems to be constant but change, it's good to know that there are, in fact, some things that change fairly slowly. Unfortunately, readiness to believe and spread hoaxes is one of them.
Mystery shopper scam: misery shopping
Money for nothing? Don't believe it: a variation on the Mystery Shopper scam that misuses the Pinecone Research brand.
Phishing and the Smile on the Face of the Tiger
Two rough and ready phishing emails that nevertheless tell us a great deal about the social engineering underlying more sophisticated, graphic-rich scams.