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Hacks, Cracks, and Malware Attacks The term “spear fishing” might conjure up images of an ancient method of hunting an aquatic dinner, a sport once considered (but rejected) as an Olympic category, but the alternate spelling means something very different to those in the IT field. Spear phishing is a less widely known subcategory of […]

We would like to think we can outsmart the bad guys who are trying to phish for our personal data. Learn how to get one step ahead of their hacking attempts.

LinkedIn is a great self-marketing tool, but it can also be used for more sinister motives. Here are some tips to help you protect yourself from being a victim, or being used to hunt other targets.

Last week, we were shocked to find out details of the iPhone’s real price, we discovered Apple is breaking the enterprise market without even trying and we learnt of a new Outlook phishing scam.

Experts estimate that 3% of all spam emails carry some form of malware and one of the most common forms is phishing. So what can you do to reduce this threat?

Scammers just love big, national celebrations. Tomorrow is St Patrick’s Day. That means money, targeted scams and digital trickery.

Dropbox recently detected and shut down a spoofing page designed to grab users’ credentials to Dropbox and other webmail based systems that was hosted on Dropbox itself.

During this very hectic and busy time of year, online shopping, charity events and package deliveries increase in frequency. Cyber-criminals are aware of this and attempt to take full advantage of both the opportunity and the fact that because many people are so busy trying to get things done in time they let their guard […]

The Syrian Electronic Army, a hacking collective which seems to be pro-Syrian government, has been on a Twitter hacking roll lately. They’ve managed to compromise the accounts of many major news outlets, notably the Twitter account of the Associated Press, the Guardian, E! The compromised accounts were then used to spread pro-Syrian government messages and […]

Phishing attackers are always looking for a new angle, and the latest attacks making the rounds look to fool victims using LinkedIn Reminders as their angle. Unlike so many other phishing attacks that are seen every day, these actually look pretty good – in fact, almost better than the real ones!