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WARNING: YouTube Video Scam targets Facebook Users.

04

Jan

2013

Be advised cybercriminals are at it again, leveraging the popularity of Facebook and YouTube to scam consumers.We have seen several scams in the past spreading through Facebook promising of some leaked video of celebrities, or free Facebook T-shirts etc. The malware authors are making money by pay-per-click with these techniques. Users are tricked into clicking […]

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New Ransomware Plays Its Victims an Audio File, Over and Over and Over.

09

Oct

2012

Ransomware continuously evolves and updates its social engineering tactics to trick users into paying money to the cybercriminals.The samples we’re seeing today not only leverage the Federal Bureau of Investigation (or any police authority for that matter), but on this occasion also use a non-malicious .MP3 file!This audio file repeatedly informs users that their system […]

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EU to urge shorter data breach notification times

24

Jun

2011

Following a string of data breach notifications which seem to be less than forthcoming, the EU is urging much stricter guidelines for data breach reporting timelines. It a recent article, European Commissioner Viviane Reding was shocked “that companies needed two or three weeks to inform people that their personal data had been stolen.” Recently I […]

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