Internet Threats Blog
Most businesses today understand the need of having their own website, but most of those businesses don’t monitor their websites and even more don’t know how to react when their sites have been compromised. A study conducted which surveyed over 600 website owners and administrators whose sites had been compromised showed that 63 percent of website owners didn’t know how they were … [Read more...]
Even if your company has no plans of entering the mobile market, you need to be on the constant lookout for cybercriminals who wish to use the popularity of your brands for criminal purposes. The mobile market has exploded in recent years and companies have not yet caught up with the security and protection needed to fight back cybercriminal activity. BrandProtect is always committed to providing … [Read more...]
Credit Card Scams can happen several ways. You can either lose your card or have it stolen, your card information could be obtained and your data used to manufacture a counterfeit card, or the data could be used to make phone or internet purchases. Criminals obtain your card information from either an online purchasing site or by “scanning it”. One of the many problems of catching these … [Read more...]
Last year, in response to the explosion of new mobile apps being developed, BrandProtect launched our Mobile App Monitoring service. Initially, the primary concern was malicious mobile apps that would capture users’ personal information as it was being transmitted, or open the mobile device to control by the perpetrators – both scenarios have been seen in the wild before, and it’s only … [Read more...]
March is Fraud Prevention Month. Whether it is identity theft, phishing, online shopping, social media scams, or credit/debit card fraud, there are always victims and unaware accomplices who fall pray to big international crime organizations. The goal of Fraud Prevention Month is to increase awareness and educate public and private companies to avoid the criminal’s attempts so they can do no … [Read more...]
Post by Jim Malberg of ACCESS American Consumer Credit Education Support Services (ACCESS) was formed in the late 1990's as a nonprofit organization to fight against consumer abuses in the credit industry. Although not within our original mission, identity theft is closely tied to consumer credit, so we wholeheartedly entered the fight to prevent ID theft victimization as well. The … [Read more...]
Mashable.com has recently reported that Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL have put their differences aside and come together to create DMARC.org – the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance. It will provide consistent authentication results across their email services: Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and AOL. What is interesting to note is that the Internet giants are all … [Read more...]
Have you ever received a phone call from a person claiming to be from Microsoft? Well, Microsoft has now started to warn people that they may receive a call from scammers claiming to work for Security Departments of various well known organizations such as Microsoft. These scammers will phone you claiming they work in the Microsoft Security Department and that they have been receiving error … [Read more...]
A new generation of Facebook Scams has emerged just in time for the launch of Timeline – Facebook’s new profile layout. And while these changes have more than one user celebrating Facebook’s evolution, there are a large number of defectors who are begging Facebook to let them revert back to their old profiles. Mashable recently reported an increase in Facebook scams targeting these users … [Read more...]
By Dylan Sachs and Minal Pithia With the recent news of even more malware on the Android Market (and the subsequent Microsoft offer of a free Windows Phone for some of those affected), people are getting more and more concerned that their devices, personal information - or worse, their bank balance - are going to be targeted. This news isn't really new - mobile malware has been a … [Read more...]
