Russia has presented us with quite possibly the most advanced social engineering scheme yet. If you are chatting with a Russian, you should beware, because the one you’re having a conversation with may be a bot called CyberLover whose authors have easy money on their minds. "As a tool that can be used by hackers … Full Romantic bot is a potential privacy threat article

isoftpay.com (IP: 69.50.168.101) is a website, designed to be used for taking payments for rogue anti-spyware, such as PestCapture, SpySheriff, Bravesentry and other infamous clones. Credible users have suggested that downloads on this site may contain adware, spyware, or other potentially harmful pest programs. Also, this website is associated with ESTDOMAINS, INC., which is known … Full isoftpay.com - paying the crooks article

A years-old Windows flaw has been detected by hackers in the annual Kiwicon 2k7 conference in New Zealand. Although Microsoft supposedly fixed their DNS vulnerability way back in 1999, the bug finally resurfaced after 8 years of obscurity. According to hacker Oddy, who was one of the presenters in the conference, "Web Proxy Auto Discovery … Full Hackers unearth ancient Windows flaw article

Security experts have warned Second Life developers after finding a way to hack into the SL users’ accounts and take away all of their possessions. The trick lies in the players’ ability to embed QuickTime videos on their characters or their property. The flaw is found inside the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) on which … Full Hackers can hack Second Life accounts article

Phishing can be extremely detrimental to a company’s reputation, a fact that was illustrated by a recent nationwide survey of the UK populace. Around 50% of the 2,000 respondents to the survey said that they thought less of a company if they received a phishing email claiming to be the company’s representative. Earlier research of … Full Phishing is harming companies article

The German government is hiring coders to make "Remote forensic software" (a very smart term for "Trojan"). This software would be used to hack into terrorists’ PCs. The idea first came, when earlier this year a Federal Court in Germany ruled that "clandestine searches of suspects’ computers" make any evidence found using this method inadmissible in … Full The German government is recruiting hackers article

Spammers have engineered a new type of spam-mail, one that appeals to a user’s feeling of guilt. The new spam mail appears to be from a private eye and states that the user is being watched and that there is a sample of his/her phone conversation in the attachment to the message. The attachment is a … Full Private eye spam article

There is a new trend in the phishing market. It is called voice phishing or vishing for short. The principle remains the same, only instead of asking users to go to illicit websites over spam mail, scammers now ask that they make a call and provide various details that way. For example, recently there was the … Full Vishing, the new phishing article

Good news for the folks who use Firefox for internet browsing: Mozilla is planning to launch the newest version of their IE alternative. The week after Thanksgiving should see the upcoming release of the 2.0.0.10 update. And with that version, a major and pesky security flaw will be gone from the browser forever. We wrote … Full Firefox about to get patched article

Sudoku can become a new means for solving the spam problem, which spam filters are not effective enough at doing. This was suggested by Paul Gardner-Stephen from Flinders University in Adelaide. The concept is to add an automatic system that makes mail servers solve a sudoku puzzle in order for the message to reach the … Full Sudoku to combat spam article

At the beggining of the holiday season everyone has to get ready, even cyber-criminals. And they are doing it quite vigorously, thus frustrating businesses and customers alike. The trend is cybersquatting and phishing. Both of these practices have become a lot more popular over the past year: cybersquatting has grown by 20% and phishing by … Full Cyber-criminals prepare for the holiday season article

With the advancement of Web 2.0 and all the possibilities to the internet community it holds, new challenges may also come to light. According to reputable internet security experts, the danger of Web 2.0 becoming a catalyst for a new  generation of malware and hacking tools is real. Google Mashup tools and RSS feeds are … Full Web 2.0: catalyst for new malware? article

Recently, full-fledged internet surfing has become a privilege enjoyed not only by PC, laptop and palm users, but also by console owners. However, no benefit is without its consequences. With the ability to browse gaming websites, comes the danger of encountering malicious code from dangerous sites. Although a time for a console virus pandemic … Full Anti-virus sofware for consoles released article

Microsoft has made huge progress in the security field, since they started investing in it in 2003. The company’s officials, however, are still unhappy with its effectiveness. Microsoft released Windows Live OneCare for consumers in 2006 and Forefront client security for enterprises earlier in 2007. The market they entered was filled with such expierienced security … Full Microsoft on a security rampage article

New trends in cyber-crime call for new measures of dealing with it. The days when all there was to hacking was the sense of accomplishment of breaking into some database or taking down a big website are far over. It’s all about financial gain now and the groups involved in cyber-crime are very well organized. "The … Full IT managers should think as hackers do article