You may have noticed colorful “Hello My Name Is” tags appearing in your newsfeed. At first glance it looks like just another silly Facebook app but it’s actually the latest attempt by scammers to trick Facebook users into helping them commit affiliate fraud. When a user clicks on the invitation to find out what their more »

Amy Whinehouse passed away over the weekend. As quickly as the news of her death spread, Facebook scammers began to take advantage of the situation. Whinehouse’s death was a mystery since initial reports claimed there were no signs of foul play. That was all the scammers needed to create claims of a death video.

Twitter, the 140 character messaging service is used for many things. Keeping tabs on folks, passing news around, finding jobs and now, finding sales leads. Thanks to some new features, InboxQ is taking a lead position in finding sales opportunities. Formerly just a browser plug in (Chome and Firefox), InboxQ is now a web application more »

On April 1 Epsilon, a marketing company that handles email communications for big clients, announced its email system had been exposed. Unfortunately it wasn’t an April Fools’ joke. Someone believed to be outside of the company managed to obtain customer information in the form of email addresses and names. Epsilon says that no credit card information or anything equally devastating was taken as a result of the breach.

McAfee reported their Q3 Threat Report on security issues on the web. The bottom line is malware is up, way up and spam is down. In fact, “an average of 60,000 new pieces of malware identified per day, almost quadrupling since 2007″ while spam hit a 2-year low. “Our Q3 Threat report shows that cybercriminals more »

Security researchers say the Rustock botnet has ended its experimenting with transport layer security. It’s believed the botherders tried it as a way of hiding their activity but decided the burden it placed on bandwidth and processing speed was too great. The botnet is currently responsible for over 40% of the world’s spam volume, most more »

A new wave of spam is hitting the net with headlines announcing the death of various celebrities from Miley Cyrus to Tom Cruise. The fake stories claim the celebrity died in a plane crash or automobile accident and include an attachment said to contain exclusive information. If opened, that attachment downloads the infamous Zbot Trojan, more »

Yet another scam has hit Facebook. This one takes advantage of the widespread desire of users to have a “dislike” button in addition to the ubiquitous like button that’s become somewhat of a signature for the site. It appears in a user’s newsfeed and informs them Facebook has finally introduced a dislike button and they 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 »

Three men have been arrested in Slovenia in connection with the Mariposa botnet. Mariposa was disabled last year but had managed to infect several million computers before it was laid to rest. It stole personal information and launched several Denial of Service (DDoS attacks). For awhile it managed to avoid detection by rapidly changing its more »