A Los Angeles man is on his way to prison after being handed a 13-year sentence for his part in a bizarre crime ring that involved both phishing and marijuana growing. Authorities say 27-year old Kenneth Joseph Lucas was a key operative in a massive international phishing ring, that led to the arrests of over more »

At the tail end of March, Epsilon’s database was breached resulting in the theft of millions of email addresses. The email addresses belonged to customers from a number of popular companies such as Verizon, TiVo, JP Morgan Chase Kroger and others. Even though no personal information besides email addresses were stolen, that may be enough to trick some users into being victims of phishing scams.

Facebook is ripe with scams and spams these days. Ever since Facebook opened up it’s “Like” feature things really exploded. It’s not surprising. Cybercriminals go where the audiences go. They started with “Make Money Now!” chain letter scams on USENET back in the day, moved on to crude phishing scams on AOL and then to more »

Researchers from AVG took a look inside a mini-Zeus botnet called Mumba and found it was storing 60GB of stolen information. This information included bank account numbers, credit card numbers, log on credentials for social networking sites, even emails. blockquote>“Detected by AVG security products, the “Mumba” botnet was found to be using four different variations more »

It’s a jungle out there. Every time you register on a website, buy something from an online retailer, do your banking, use Paypal, sell something on Ebay or Craigist, or do any of the online things most people take for granted, your personal info lands on the web. Scammers know this and are constantly coming more »

The over 2,000 people on Facebook board of directors member Jim Breyer’s friends list received a malicious message in their inbox, courtesy of a hacker and the phishing scam he used Beryer’s account to distribute. Bryer’s friends received a Facebook even invite asking if they’d like to sign up to get a Facebook phone number more »

Several Twitter users have reported that their accounts have been locked out of Twitter, and are forced to perform a password change. They have received an email notifying them of possible phishing attacks on their accounts, sparking rumors of a wide-spread phishing attack. Some of them have even suspected that the official notification emails sent more »

When the CEO of Packet Focus decided to test the security of the top three smartphones, he was shocked to discover they all failed miserably. Joshua Perrymon sent a spoofed phishing email made to look like it was a LinkedIn invitation from Bill Gates to users of the iPhone, the BlackBerry and the Palm Pre more »

According to a report by CNET UK, thousands of login credentials for Hotmail, Yahoo, and Google accounts have been stolen and posted online. Since Google accounts also allow access to Blogger, YouTube, Google Docs and Google Talk accounts, the potential data breach is huge as are the possible repercussions. Google is blaming a large scale more »

RIM has issued a patch for a bug in its browser that could allow BlackBerry users to be hit by a phishing attack. The bug involves the security feature that notifies a user if the website they are trying to visit has a certificate mismatch. The browser correctly identifies such sites but does not display more »