I’m very excited to announce that we have closed our second round of funding with a fantastic investment partner, Fidelity. For…
Month: January 2016
Tech support scammers lure users with fake Norton warnings, turn out to be Symantec reseller
Fraudulent tech support companies are well-known for taking advantage of unsavvy computer users by reeling them in with scare tactics and…
Spammers Serve Trump and Movie Survey Mashup
I wondered for a moment if I’d been signed up to some sort of political taskforce when I opened up the…
Hacking your head: how cybercriminals use social engineering
Social engineering is nothing new. It’s a tool of psychological manipulation that’s been used since the dawn of man. Why? To…
MSN Home Page Drops More Malware Via Malvertising
Malvertisers are once again abusing ad technology platform AdSpirit and exposing visitors of the MSN homepage to malware. These attacks appeared…
Belinda Carlisle’s Official Website Hacked, Sports Viagra Banner
At some point over the weekend, the official website of Belinda Carlisle was compromised, displaying banner ads for a Canadian Pharmacy…
A Week in Security (Jan 10 – Jan 16)
It’s time for our weekly roundup! First off, a look at the items covered on the blog this past week….
A Brief Guide to FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
This blog post explains what FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION is and why browser hijackers seem to love it. It also points out that this…
When URL Shorteners and Ransomware Collide
We are all very familiar with URL shortening services, which are regularly used in Tweets and other social media. It is…
The Windows Vaults
The Credential Manager in Windows is a relatively unknown feature, even though a lot of people are using it without being…