Social media has affected business organizations in many different ways through the years and these effects caused the development of a rather complicated relationship between the two. Social media has proven to be an effective marketing tool for businesses. Data collected last year from Fortune?s Global 100 revealed that more than 50 percent of the [...]
We recently saw some articles on the Web saying that Slim Shady aka Eminem died in a car crash. Today, we received a spammed message that still claims the rumor is true. The email pretends to be from CBS News informing the recipient of the news about Eminem?s alleged car crash. It also asks if [...]
Earlier this month, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) published new guidelines on the delicate topic of testing anti-malware products. Since then, many experts in the anti-malware industry have been commenting on the said guidelines. Many of these comments (including some from myself), have been summed up by tech blogger Kevin Townsend here. After reading [...]
Nowadays, hardware have become so cheap that cybercriminals can easily reproduce fake point-of-sale (POS) devices that can be used to skim data from credit and debit cards. In an underground forum, a certain ?Nikkon? has posted a fake POS device with flash memory for sale. The device is notably identical to a normal-looking POS terminal. [...]
Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo is the latest high-profile company to be compromised. Sometime over the past weekend, its support pages, which allowed users to download drivers and manuals, were compromised with the addition of a malicious iframe. The website in this malicious iframe led to the download of a BREDOLAB variant detected as TROJ_BREDOLAB.BY. This [...]