Photoshopped image scam used in rogue Facebook app trap. Facebook users were put under fire April 4 by a brace of new threats, one of which spreads through a link disseminated through the Facebook Chat application. An estimated 600,000 people…
More customers exposed as big data breach grows. The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive and growing data breach after a computer…
Phishers are using spam that tries to trick people by offering an upgrade to Adobe Acrobat. Detailed by security provider Cloudmark, this type of advertising spam e-mails users a notice to upgrade to the new Adobe Acrobat Reader. Those who…
Mass injection attack hits a million websites. More than 1 million URLs were compromised by a cyberattack that has suddenly ramped up in the last 24 hours to become one of the biggest mass-injection attacks ever seen. The trojan, dubbed…
RSA had a conference call today with various analysts to discuss more details of the attack, and how they are communicating the after-effects to and with their customers. RSA said the attack started with phishing emails sent to small groups of…
The Federal Trade Commission has come down like a ton of government regulators on Google and its Google Buzz social networking service for stomping all over their own privacy policies when it launched back in February of 2010. The agreement…
Japanese DRAM makers’ woes echo rest of industry after quake. According to new reports, the earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan continue to affect production at key factories making 12-inch silicon wafers, the raw materials that chips are etched onto….
New mass SQL injection attack infects thousands of pages. A new mass injection attack has infected over 28,000 pages and even made its way to iTunes according to security researchers from Websense. Dubbed LizaMoon, after the domain hosting the malicious…
Comodo admits 2 more resellers pwned in SSL cert hack. Comodo has admitted an additional two registration authorities tied to the digital certificates firm were hit by a high-profile forged digital certificate attack earlier in March. No forged certificates were…
Adobe warns of zero day vulnerability in Flash and Reader. Adobe has reported that an unpatched vulnerability in its Adobe Flash Player can be exploited to inject and execute malicious code. The vulnerability has reportedly been used for targeted attacks…