Alleged spam kingpin under investigation

Alleged spam kingpin under investigation


Alleged spam kingpin under investigation

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 10:05 AM PDT

31-year old Russian Igor Gusev is being investigated by the Russian police because they believe him to be the central figure behind the well-known spamming affiliate program SpamIt.com, which ceased t...

Cybercriminals aggressively recruiting money mules

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 09:27 AM PDT

Money mules have been aggressively recruited this year to help cyber criminals launder money, according to Fortinet. A recent example of this is the worldwide prosecutions of a Zeus criminal operation...

Facebook "Check to see who has deleted you" scam

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 07:30 AM PDT

"See who your friends really are! Check to see who has deleted you," offers the latest Facebook scam: If you're tempted to use this application that goes by the name of "Loyalfriend" - don't! Not...

Cloud security risks, benefits and cost savings

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 07:27 AM PDT

Harold Moss is the Emerging Tech & Cloud Computing Technical Architect, IBM Security Strategy. In this interview he talks about the security of cloud service providers, cost savings and risks invol...

ZeuS-SpyEye merger

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 04:24 AM PDT

Feeling the heat of the attention of international law enforcement and the recent takedowns of various botnets and the worldwide arrests of gang members using his malware, the developer of the ZeuS Tr...

Facebook phishing worm compromises thousands of accounts

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 03:11 AM PDT

A very effective phishing worm has been targeting Facebook users and has been compromising their accounts by luring them with the offer of seeing a video. The victim would receive a instant message...

Firefox 0-day compromises visitors of Nobel Peace Prize website

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 02:05 AM PDT

The official site of the Nobel Peace Prize has been compromised by using a malicious PHP Script, and has been found serving malware by taking advantage of a Firefox zero-day vulnerability. Mozilla ...

Boonana Trojan for Mac OS X spreads via social media

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 01:10 AM PDT

SecureMac has discovered a new Trojan horse in the wild that affects Mac OS X, including Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6). The Trojan horse, Trojan.osx.boonana.a, is spreading through social networking sites,...

Computer pranks that simulate Trojan infections are invading the Web

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 12:56 AM PDT

As Halloween approaches, applications, fake websites, spam and Trojans all put on a disguise to try to trick users. PandaLabs has been detecting attacks like these since August. However, these have...

Most Americans support an Internet kill switch

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 12:29 AM PDT

Sixty-one percent of Americans said the President should have the ability to shut down portions of the Internet in the event of a coordinated malicious cyber attack, according to research by Unisys. ...

CloudAudit joins the Cloud Security Alliance

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 12:18 AM PDT

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced that CloudAudit has become an official project of the CSA, with the joint mission of promoting the use of best practices for providing security assurance wi...

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