A wave of phishing attacks have been hitting over the last day targeting customers of Regions Bank in the United States and Westpac Bank customers in New Zealand. Other banks in the US, UK and … [Read more...]
Google detected and disrupted a plan to break into Gmail accounts
Thursday, 2 June 2011 By
Google revealed yesterday that it had "detected and disrupted" a plan to break into hundreds of Gmail accounts through a series of phishing attacks. The targets of the attacks included top government … [Read more...]
Cybercrime is moving from China and Eastern Europe to Canada (says Websense)
Wednesday, 11 May 2011 By
Websense is saying that due to stricter controls on Chinese and Eastern European IP addresses, that cybercriminals are seeking a new haven in Canada. The number of phishing sites registered in … [Read more...]
10 things you can do for safer computing
Wednesday, 16 February 2011 By
It is true, safe computing starts with yourself. You may have a lot of good security measures in place, like antivirus, firewall, spam checker, and so on ... but if you are the weakest link in the … [Read more...]
My adwords needed fixing ?
Wednesday, 12 January 2011 By
Today I received an interesting message from Google (it appeared to be from them anyway). Hello, Your Google Adwords Account has stopped running this morning. Some of the ads have stopped … [Read more...]
ING clients targetted with phishing attack
Wednesday, 5 January 2011 By
Last week clients of Dutch ING bank, which is also active in Belgium, have been targetted with a phishing attack. This attack had a a subject "'Belangrijk mijn ING Nieuws" and was sent by an … [Read more...]
