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Digital media and privacy on the Internet Digital media provide an easy, efficient and inexpensive way to share information, therefore have become an indispensable part of the daily work and leisure of a large number of people. Many services available online require users to register during which they need to submit personal information, most often […]
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Cybercriminals often use the service subscription theme to bait users. These swindles are particularly effective when they mention certain amounts of money being withdrawn from one’s credit card. This is the case with the latest spin-off of the Geek Squad email scam. Although most recipients have no relationship with the company impersonated in these messages, […]
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Breaking cybersecurity news is the release of a new ransomware species used in targeted attacks against organizations. It’s called ColdLock, which is a term coined by researchers who unearthed this strain and inspected its modus operandi. The infection has hit a number of networks in the East Asia region so far. Keep reading to find […]
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Freebies are awesome, aren’t they? True, but when interacting with some Internet resources that promise the moon and don’t charge a penny, users are better off learning to separate the wheat from the chaff. The free streaming portal Soap2Day might appear to carry through with its claims, but upon closer inspection, it doesn’t look as […]
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Fraudulent online activities and browser hijacking go hand in hand. Scammers are heavily cashing in on this combo of social engineering and malware because it gets users on the hook regardless of their custom Internet settings, web surfing habits, and the web browser they prefer. Carlbendergogo.com is a landing page in one of such hoaxes […]
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Cybercrime doesn’t necessarily come down to creating and distributing super-complex malware that makes a mess of users’ computers or mobile devices. It’s also about social engineering in its pure form, which is a relatively effortless vector that might be just as effective. For instance, DigitsPro email scam is aimed at defrauding people of money by […]
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They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Among other things, this holds true for lots of computer-related scenarios where users catch malicious code when trying to get freebies. Torrenting is a good example because it’s often a mixed blessing. While providing a way to download videos and audio files without any fees, […]
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Ever heard of the Chaos Computer Club, an association of hacktivists with German roots? Unless you are a security geek, you probably haven’t. A recent wave of email scams, though, has increased the average layman’s awareness about this community, except that it uses an abbreviated form of the name – the ChaosCC hacker group. Here’s […]
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Proper user experience is hard to provide and amazingly easy to deteriorate. There are online entities like en.savefrom.net that somehow manage to do both. One the one hand, the service in question allows people to download streaming materials. On the other, unlike benign providers, it ends up harshly interfering with one’s web browsing in several […]
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In a paradigm of electronic systems getting constantly better at defenses, cybercriminals are looking for easier ways of compromise than ‘classic’ malware injection. In this context, phishing attacks come to the fore as they zero in on humans rather than computers. The Netflix email scam is a prime example of such a modern exploitation vector. […]
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