Internet Threats Blog
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...]
Banning employees from Facebook, Twitter and other sites shows a 30% increase in computer security breaches TELUS and the Rotman School of Management have published their third annual IT security study. This time, the study revealed an increase in the number of security breaches in both government entities and companies in the private sector; with government entities experiencing twice the number … [Read more...]
By now many of you have read about security site Sophos recently released post on Facebook’s report on compromised accounts. According to the released infographic, 0.06% of the 1 billion logins per day are compromised. It does not sound like a threatening number until you realize we are still talking about roughly 600,000 accounts a day. Facebook’s report also indicated that less than 4% of … [Read more...]
Over the past few weeks we have seen a spike in the posting of fake online employment listings. The positions claimed to be available have run the gamut, from administrative assistant, to stocker, to docker, and many more. The locations spanned across the U.S.A., from the Space Coast to San Francisco to Seattle, and on to Salem. One recent scam worked as follows: A number of fake job … [Read more...]
In July of this year our Incident Response Teams hands were full, we received a flood of phishing sites and a majority of them were caused by the osCommerce attack and WordPress vulnerabilities. Phishing sites coming from open source web applications are very popular and a rich target environment for hackers. osCommerce (“open source Commerce”) is an e-commerce and online store-management … [Read more...]
The first half of 2011 should prove to be the “year of the breaches”. We saw numerous security breaches targeting high-profile organizations such as, Sony PlayStation, Lockheed Martin, and a dozen of other companies and government organizations. Security breaches are on the rise and here to stay! Recently, Japan’s largest defense contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries suffered a massive … [Read more...]
Hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec have been on the spotlight for the last couple of months. The media has had a feast reporting each and every one of their attacks; going after companies like PayPal and Sony to the CIA and the FBI. These two groups have established themselves as “hactivists” (a clever wording of hackers and activists) and have been bringing down sites for “the lulz” or … [Read more...]
