For the first time ever, spammers are establishing their own their own fake URL-shortening services to perform URL redirection, according to Symantec.
This new spamming activity has contributed to …
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Google’s Chrome Web Store has quietly been purged of at least two games after a blogger revealed that the Flash-based browser extensions had unfettered access to all website data, browsing history, and bookmarks stored on users’ computers.…
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As users go virtual in all aspects of their life, the notion of doing all their work on a single traditional desktop in one physical location is rapidly evolving.
Increasingly, people everywhere ar…
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Cybercriminals claim a million victims a day with an online scam that McAfee Labs predicts will cost consumers the most money in 2010: scareware. Scareware appears as legitimate looking pop-up alerts warning users their computer is infected and prompting them to install malware disguised as security software. Stevie Wilson, a scareware victim who lives in Los Angeles, shares her story in this video. Go to www.mcafee.com/consumer-threats-blog to read the Consumer Threat Alert about scareware scams. Consumers can sign up for free to get warnings on the latest online threats at www.mcafee.com/consumer-threats-signup.
With phishing attacks hurting the credibility of email communications, forward thinking banks are turning to social media as the best channel to warn customers of scams and attacks.
For example, o…
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