Results for 'personally identifiable information'
Think tank summarizes what happens to healthcare records after breach
September 21, 2016 - The Institute of Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) has recently published a 54-page white paper entitled “Your Life, Repackaged and Resold: The Deep...
PUP Friday: RelevantKnowledge
June 10, 2016 - RelevantKnowledge is a Marketscore variant. It is considered adware and by some even seen as spyware. MarketScore, formerly known as Netsetter,...
A week in security (May 08 – May 14)
May 16, 2016 - Last week, we saw spam posts suddenly appearing on a celebrity’s website, talked about a malvertising campaign on Blogger, dissected a...
A Look Back on Misleading Advertising
March 30, 2016 - Increasing reports on malvertising has left us with the notion that any site belonging to legitimate businesses that earn through ads...
Explained: Doxing
February 15, 2016 - Definition of Doxing (sometimes written as doxxing): gathering identifiable information about a person or a group of people with the objective...
Spammers Serve Trump and Movie Survey Mashup
January 20, 2016 - I wondered for a moment if I’d been signed up to some sort of political taskforce when I opened up the...
A Week in Security (Dec 06 – Dec 12)
December 14, 2015 - Last week, we touched on Tunecore’s breach, a phishing attempt at Lloyd’s bank, and a deeper look at the Chimera ransomware....
Fake Amazon UK Mail Asks You to Verify Your Account After “Breach”
September 16, 2015 - There is an Amazon phishing scam currently making rounds, so you better keep an eye on your inboxes, assuming your spam...
Stranger Danger and the Sociable Child
August 21, 2015 - Yes, I’ve seen that Coby Persin YouTube video, too: [youtube=https://youtu.be/6jMhMVEjEQg] I don’t normally watch viral videos, but being an advocate of...
Of Counterfeit Sites and Denali Jackets
June 10, 2015 - At hpHosts, Malwarebytes’s trusted blacklist of malicious sites, we also receive tip-offs or reports from users about one or two dodgy URLs...
