ACH Payment Scam

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Just got this in one of my email accounts:   Evidently this has been around before but is now back. The “scam” here is to get you to open the attached ZIP file. when this surfaced earlier the NACHA (a legitimate company) posted this response: Random individuals and/or companies may have received a falsified e-mail [...]

Google warning users infected with malware

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  Hopefully this hasn’t happened to you in a long time, but how about the last time you used a friend’s PC to discover he had installed three different browser toolbars on top of each other and that Google queries were being filtered and redirected to a (usually awful looking) third-party ripoff site.   Recently [...]

Users Clueless About Malware

Users Clueless About Malware, Careless About Security Measures: Survey Posted on Sunday Jun 26th 2011  by Fahmida Y. Rashid.   Filed under: Midmarket A pair of surveys focusing on end-users found some worrying patterns and misconceptions about Internet safety and poor security practices.   When it comes to enterprise security, user misconceptions of safe online behavior [...]

Our Government is hard at work – FBI busts scareware

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‘Scareware’ Distributors Targeted12 Nations Coordinate Anti-Cyber Crime Effort 06/22/11 One of the most widespread types of cyber scam being perpetrated against consumers these days involves “scareware”—those pop-up messages you see on your computer saying you’ve got a virus and all you have to do to get rid of it is buy the antivirus software being [...]

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