Could Your Organization Fall Victim To Phishing? 5 Tips For Reducing The Risk


A decade after the first appearance of “phishing” (the practice of infiltrating or infecting a network by sending emails disguised to look like ordinary mail from a co-worker or familiar organization...

A Teen Girl’s Facebook Typo Led Horrified Stranger To Get Thousands Of Her Messages


When Wake Forest grad student Kristal McKenzie, 33, was pregnant a few years ago, she decided it was time to abandon Facebook. “I’m concerned about online privacy, and was tired of keeping up with...

Feds Take Down Hackers-For-Hire Who Provided Passwords To Suspicious Spouses


If scouring Facebook for clues of infidelity isn’t sufficient, what else is a jealous lover to do but hack into his or her significant other’s email? That was the philosophy behind “Needapassword.com...

Yahoo Breach: email account passwords stolen


Yahoo says usernames and passwords stolen, information used to gather names, addresses NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo said Thursday that usernames and passwords of its email customers have been stolen and...

Security Alert: The Alarming Lifecycle Of American SMS Spam


Detailed graphics, blowing wide open the alarming way text message (SMS) spam spreads across the U.S., have prompted chief information officers at telecoms firms to start taking aggressive...