Robert McMillan reports on how criminals are switching from phishing - which security professionals have worked hard to make ineffective - to malware. read more » DiscussBury
"Internet-based cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and specialized as profit-driven criminals continue to hone their approach to stealing data from businesses, employees and consum read more » DiscussBury
"Four weeks after spam levels plummeted when a rogue hosting company was yanked off the Internet, junk mail volumes are again up, a researcher said Tuesday." read more » DiscussBury
Robert McMillan writes "Criminals are taking advantage of a bug in the Asterisk Internet telephone system that lets them pump out thousands of scam phone calls in an hour, the U.S. Federal Bureau of read more » DiscussBury
"Online criminals took control of the Domain Name System (DNS) record for payment processor CheckFree and briefly redirected the site's visitors to a their own server." read more » DiscussBury
"A worm program that has been tricking Facebook users into downloading malicious software since July has resurfaced. Criminals have released a new variation of the worm, known as Koobface, Facebook read more » DiscussBury
"The FBI emailed us today - never a good sign - to let us know about their updated top ten fugitives widget. It's a big improvement on the eyesore that they released a year ago." read more » DiscussBury
