Tag: ATTACK

The security pros at Sophos Labs and McAfee have noticed a disturbing increase in Facebook phishing attacks lately. Facebook is a juicy target for this type of attack. Why? For starters, there are 350 million + users to go after. On top of that, many are less computer-savy users (like your parents and mine, teenagers, etc.) who may not be familiar with malware and how to protect themselves. ...

Gamers almost universally groaned when Ubisoft announced a new DRM scheme that requires its latest games, including Assassin's Creed 2 and SIlent Hunter 5, to be connected to the Ubisoft servers to function. Everyone wondered, "What happens when the servers fail?" Well, we found out over the weekend, when -- surprise! -- the servers temporarily went down, rendering legitimately-purchased copies of ...

It's no surprise that the last few days has seen a huge amount of information bubble to the surface regarding China's recent cyber attacks on the infrastructure of more than 30 Silicon Valley companies. Much of it is coming from the security and anti-virus companies -- now that the attack has been identified and halted, the world in general and the victims in particular want to know how it ...

I was shocked when I first read this article from Matt Hines that spoke of the rising attacks of malware through instant messaging. I knew that there had been a number of articles lately about attacks, but I never realized that there were so many. Apparently there were 41 attacks in December 2006 over instant messaging systems, with over 400 IM initiated threats in the past 12 months. That's an ...