Archive for the ‘Internet News’ Category

More Hacking via Phishing Attacks To High Profile Twitter Accounts

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

The Twitter Phishing Scores Big With Hacking Attacks Against Britney Spears and Barack Obama Lately the phishing attacks have targeted high profile Twitter accounts such as those of Britney Spears, Barack Obama and Fox News. With this new wave of phishing attacks the action of resetting many compromised users accounts has ...

Twitter Users Plagued With Phishing Spam Attacks

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Have you received a message on Twitter asking you to check out a funny blog about you? Lately several reports have come in from Twitter users stating that they received a direct message from their online followers inviting them to visit a phishing website that is designed to steal their username ...

Holiday e-Cards or e-Greetings Infecting Many Users with Malware

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

This holiday season cyber crooks are once again sending out e-cards or e-greetings infecting many computer users with malware via fake Adobe Flash Player downloads. It is still not too late to get an e-Greeting card in your email for this holiday season. Lately reports have come in from several security ...

Santa Catarina Disaster Spam Message Spreads Video_SC_Desastre.exe Trojan

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Have you ever received an email related to disaster relief of or a messaged associated with a recent disaster area? You would think that a message of this nature would be truthful and nothing that a hacker would actually take advantage of right? Well, think again! A spam campaign that ...

Unstoppable Hackers: Breaking Into Email Accounts

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

It seems hackers are virtually unstoppable when it comes to hacking into email accounts lately. You have probably heard about the latest attack on Sarah Palin’s yahoo email account and you are probably wondering if your yahoo account is safe. Many security experts believe it was a matter of various ...

Hackers Delight: “Forgot your password” links give hackers easy access

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Have you recently forgotten your password and clicked on a "Forgot your password" link to obtain or reset it? Did you ever think that this would be a way that a hacker could get a hold of your password? Do you know that it is easier for a hacker to get ...

Vista Vulnerabilities Uncovered by Security Researcher

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Security Researcher finds Windows Vista memory corruption Vulnerabilities and recommends solutions Windows Vista is suppose to be a newer version of Windows that looks better, performs better and is more secure than older consumer versions such as Windows XP. When it comes to hackers attacking the Vista operating system it was ...