FCC Proposal Stops Unwanted Calls and Texts but May Also Be Exploited
In 2014, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received over 215,000 complaints regarding unwanted calls. Many, if not the...
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FBI Issues CryptoWall Warning; Costs Victims $18M in Past Year
The FBIs Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued a public service announcement warning of continued criminal fraud using...
Exploit Tool Used to Hijack Router DNS Settings for Large Scale Attacks
If you read these articles often, you have heard the term DNS. It is the acronym for Domain Name System and essentially works as...
OPM Breach Growing by the Day - Steps You can take to Protect Your Identity
There have been many discussions recently about the cyber intrusion at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Unfortunately...
Text Scams that Claim to be from Your FI Steal Personal Info
There have been some rather sophisticated scams floating around, but one making its way now is using a particularly simple method...
Breaking Bad TV Series Exploited as Ransomware
It's not just an addictive cable television series, it's also now a scam. The popular series Breaking Bad has been exploited as...
OS X and iOS Flaw May Allow Your Passwords to be Stolen
If you are an iOS or OS X user and think you are one up in the Smartphone battle after the most recent security flaw in the...
OPM Breach Now Said to Affect 18 Million and Counting
According to some media organizations, the FBI has provided some details on the data breach on the Office of Personnel Management...
Criminals Phish for Passwords to Re-Use on all Sites
It's probably no surprise to most that cyber criminals have been targeting big brands of late. According to a survey from the...
Wire Fraud Through Email Masquerading Becoming Big Business
Email is a big part of our work life and the cyber criminals know it. That's why phishing is such a big crime industry. Targeted...
Samsung Galaxy Owners Vulnerable to Spying
It's been a busy week for the cybersecurity world. The U.S. government announced recently that it had been a victim of two...
PoS Systems Shipped with Same Default Password for 25 Years
Sometimes it is difficult to know who to believe when it comes to information security. At the most recent RSA Security...