Tagged: Scams & News
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Rise in fake job ads, e-commerce sites seeking personal data News
02.05.2012 There has been an increase in false job adverts, fraudulent websites offering cheap goods and other schemes online to trick people into sharing their personal and banking... -
Twitter scam hits Draw Something players News
29.03.2012 Draw Something, the popular gaming app played by 3,000 people per second, has been hit by a new scam on Twitter, where users are being told they have won a prize but in reality...Categories: Social Media, Security, Phones, Games/Entertainment, Digital Marketing, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Retailers probe how fake iPad 2s made of clay sold in shops News
18.01.2012 Electronics retailers Best Buy and Future Shop have launched an investigation into how nearly a dozen fake Apple iPad 2 tablet computers made of modelling clay came to be sold... -
Google files complaint against YouTube domain typo squatter News
24.11.2011 Google is tackling a domain squatter who is using a number of variations of the web address YouTube.com to try and trick people into taking a survey scam. -
Facebook discovers how porn and violence spread on news feeds News
16.11.2011 Facebook has found the reason why many users saw images of pornography and violence flood their news feeds, which was due to users being tricked into pasting malicious code into... -
Porn and violence flood Facebook news feeds News
15.11.2011 An influx of graphic images which depict pornography and extreme violence have flooded numerous Facebook users’ news feeds, reports suggest. -
Criminals hijack social media sites with ‘friend in distress’ scams News
23.08.2011 A disturbing new trend has emerged whereby social media savvy cyber criminals are targeting the friend-lists of holiday makers who have gloated about their break or posted... -
New online scams exploit Oslo tragedy and Winehouse death News
25.07.2011 Cyber criminals are already exploiting Friday’s bomb blast in Oslo, as well as the death of singer Amy Winehouse over the weekend, to trick people into visiting websites... -
Targeted malicious attacks worth US$1.3bn to cyber criminals News
01.07.2011 Cyber criminals are shifting their stratagem away from mass spam attacks to more targeted, malicious-style attacks, such as spearphishing. Cisco estimates the overall cost of... -
Data Protection Commissioner to prosecute phone scammers News
17.06.2011 The Data Protection Commissioner plans to bring prosecutions against individuals found to be involved in the current spate of internet scams where ordinary individuals are being... -
Mac malware scam grows legs – MacGuard needs no password News
27.05.2011 The once relatively virus-free Apple Mac ecosystem has been tainted forever by a nasty malware scam and you sense an age of innocence has ended. It’s a deadly shock to that... -
New email scam targets BoI credit card customers News
25.05.2011 Scammers have come up with a new trick aimed at parting Bank of Ireland customers from their credit card details and PIN numbers by taking advantage of heightened awareness... -
Sony servers now hit by phishing scam News
20.05.2011 Sony’s cyber security woes are continuing. Security player F-Secure has discovered the presence of a phishing site on certain Sony websites in Thailand and Italy. -
Twitter is keen to avoid Facebook’s privacy nightmare News
19.05.2011 Twitter’s decision to give consumers more control over what information they share with third-party applications is a prudent step that could help the microblogging site avoid... -
Facebook ‘Dislike button’ scam spreading fast News
16.05.2011 Facebook users have been told to be on their guard after it has been discovered a new scam is doing the rounds. ‘Enable Dislike Button’ is a scam that has succeeded in bypassing... -
Irish-themed Facebook scams start to emerge News
18.04.2011 While cyber criminals are known to use global disasters like earthquakes in Japan to issue ‘shocking news’ scam messages, for the first time Irish-themed spam messages have... -
Cyber criminals exploit Japan earthquake with SEO attacks News
11.03.2011 Conniving cyber criminals are taking advantage of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan and resulting tsunami in the Pacific region to lure concerned internet users into...Tags: Cyber Criminals, Scams, Spam, Malware, SEO, SEO poisoning, Blackhats, ESET, Trend Micro, Earthquake, Japan, -
Cyber warfare doesn’t have capacity to cause global shock News
19.01.2011 The recent Stuxnet attack which originated in Israel and succeeded in disabling and damaging Iran’s nuclear programme indicates that cyber warfare is already upon us.Categories: Web 2.0, Social Media, Security, Search Engines, Internet, Government, Global CIO, Enterprise Applications, CIO -
Malware merger shows cyber crime business model News
30.11.2010 News that two malware families have decided to pool their resources shows how much of an organised business cyber crime has become, Trend Micro has said. -
More than 76pc of Irish consumers targeted by scams - NCA News
01.04.2010 More than 76pc of Irish consumers have indicated that either they or a family member have been targeted by a scam, new research from the National Consumer Agency (NCA) has...Categories: