Security and Privacy

Online criminals know there are enough gadget hounds out there to make a scam surrounding any shiny new Apple device a surefire moneymaker. To that end, they’ve already begun sending out phishing emails for the iPhone 5. The phishing emails appear to be official emails from Apple.com, with the title “Finally. The amazing iPhone 5. [… Read More]

Please avoid all untrusted Happy New Year e-card links. The Shadowserver Foundation is warning of a new malicious and advanced botnet that has just been discovered and ressembles the Storm Worm designs. New Fast Flux Botnet for the Holidays: Could it be Storm Worm 3.0/Waledac 2.0? http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Calendar/20101230 Those of us here at Shadowserver hope you’re [… Read More]

Once again we need to warn you about a scam involving Microsoft Security Essentials Security Essentials is a free Antivirus program from Microsoft available to any windows user with a validated copy of a supported desktop version of windows ( XP SP3, Vista SP2 Windows 7 ) You should only download it from the Microsoft [… Read More]

Following on from my previous post, the scammers are also using Skype The fake website looks like this and the membership page is exactly the same as shown previously Once again Don’t fall for it only only use the genuine Skype site to download skype & update it

There are about to be updates issued for Adobe reader to plug security holes and vulnerabilities. The scammers have jumped in on the act and are sending emails pretending to be from an Adobe update service. If you are foolish enough to follow the links then you end up on a scam site trying to [… Read More]

Warning: Animal Protection Agency Website and email scam Sep 2010 If you have received an email proporting to be from the APA asking for your card details, please be warned this a scam. Please report it to the national police fraud unit on 0300 123 2040 or online at actionfraud.org.uk/report_fraud. Note that the website at [… Read More]

Until fairly recently, nobody bothered with changing their DNS server. Everybody used the ones provided by their ISP. Today, there are several providers worldwide that provide free public DNS service with additional features like  blocking known malware sites,  blocking known phishing sites, parental controls and some even say that their services are quicker and more  reliable. Here are a  few of [… Read More]

The lengths that scammers will go to try to convince a possible victim is quite unbelievable The following email dropped in my spam box I really can’t believe anyone will think the FBI issue or verify credit cards/ATM cards & charge you $95 insurance fee for the privilege Once again the advice is, if it [… Read More]

With the seasonal shopping season well underway, watch out for fake shopping sites and phishing emails trying to get your identity & credit card details. A slightly different approach came into my inbox today which asked me to confirm the item in my shopping basket. Now I haven’t shopped with Littlewoods online but you can [… Read More]

I was notified of a google advert for a fake wowmatrix site. The original genuine wowmatrix is seen by many games players as not completely within the rules of the games Wowmatrix is an addon that makes it easier to update and install other tweaks and addons to your game. Obviously using a fake version [… Read More]