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...
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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...
2nd Government Breach Within a Week Linked to Spearphishing
Last week, the Obama Administration acknowledged that there was a second and separate data breach on federal systems. In this...
Password Management Program LastPass Breached
LastPast, one of the leading password management programs, just announced that it has been hacked. The data breach may have...
Lack of Details on OPM Breach Offers Chance for Credit Protection Reminders
Additional information is trickling in about the data breach at the federal government's Office of Personnel Management (OPM)...
Study Finds Mobile Phone Factory Reset Doesn't Erase All Info
For those who like to keep mobile phone until they are so beaten up and slow that they can't be resold, you may really be on top...
Top Scam in 2014 is Love
The federal government's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its annual report about internet crime in 2014. There is...