According to the website of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria, they were formed in 1999 to “…among other things organize…
Year: 2014
Victims of Cyberbullying Doubled According to Latest Statistics
Ditch the Label, an anti-bullying charity organization based on Brighton, UK and member of the Anti-Bullying Alliance, published their annual study…
Free SSL certificate from CloudFlare abused in phishing scam
Today we received a phishing email pretending to come from LogMeIn, the popular remote administration tool. It uses a classic scare tactic…
Irregular Activities On Your Account: A Chase Bank Phish
From the spam traps: a fake Chase Bank “Security Warning” email, claiming to have noticed something peculiar going on with your…
“Warlords of Draenor – now invite you to join” Phish
Is that the sound of an email from Blizzard landing in my mailbox? Not exactly. There’s a number of clues that…
Ebook Spam on deviantArt Leads to Survey Scam
deviantArt (or dA) is one of a number of popular sites for artists and creatives to share and connect with like-minded people. Art,…
Some Phishy Football Antics…
This isn’t exactly like saying Candyman 5 times into a mirror, but it’s still quite the dangerous invocation: The bot alternates…
A Week in Security (Nov 30 – Dec 06)
After Thanksgiving, almost everyone already knew what was next: Black Friday. A day before it kicked off, Senior Security Researcher Jérôme Segura…
“Pardon my intrusion; my name is…”
Here’s a rather surreal 419 email currently doing the rounds. Particularly entertaining if you read it back with the actor’s voice in…
Monitor App on Google Play Sends GPS Location
There’s a monitor app available on the Google Play store which sends location coordinates through text message. Although monitor apps like…