Travel, Education Industries Most ‘Phish Prone’

The top five industries most susceptible to cyber crime include travel, education, financial services, government services and IT services, according to a recent phishing experiment conducted among small and medium enterprises featured in the latest Inc. 500 and Inc. 5000 listings.

Cybersecurity awareness training firm KnowBe4 sent out a simulated phishing…

Bin Laden Death Leads to Scam Surge

In the wake of President Barack Obama’s late-night announcement yesterday that the world’s most-wanted fugitive, Osama bin Laden, had been captured and killed, scammers were quick to jump at the opportunity to exploit the news by creating email scams and phishing attacks related to the terrorist leader’s demise.

The newly designed ploys include email scams that contain links or attachments that may redirect users to malicious websites, and fake…

Malaysia Steps Up Cybersecurity Battle

The Malaysian specialist center for cybersecurity has lined up five projects under the 10th Malaysia Plan to fight the increasing cyber crime threat in the nation, according to Bernama.

Among the new projects CyberSecurity Malaysia has already realized includes Cyber999, a public service that provides emergency response to cybersecurity-related emergencies…

Video-game Phishing Scam Hits ‘Modern Warfare 2′ Players

US-CERT is warning consumers of reports that some users on the Xbox 360 video-game system are receiving potential phishing attempts through an in-game messaging service.

In-game message phishing is not a Microsoft issue and has nothing to do with Xbox LIVE, the agency said in a release. Games are products of third-party developers that can be played on Xbox LIVE and other gaming systems.

Microsoft posted a service alert…

Cyveillance, Wombat Security Technologies Team to Educate on Phishing

Cyveillance is teaming up with Wombat Security Technologies to educate organizations on phishing scams and provide training on ways of protection against them.

An email campaign will test employees through phishing scams they could fall for. Wombat will use PhishGuru, an online tool to asses and train employees through simulated phishing emails. If…

Report: Email-borne Malware Surges 400% after Rustock Takedown

Malware delivered via email grew by 400 percent in the last week of March 2011, with the spike detected two weeks after the takedown of the Rustock botnet, according to a quarterly report by Commtouch.

The Internet Threats Trend Report, which covers spam, phishing, malware and web …

35K Chinese Websites Hacked in 2010

Tens of thousands of websites in China were attacked by hackers in 2010, including 4,635 government websites, according to a report released by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China.

The report, quoted by People’s Daily Online, said government websites are vulnerable to cyber attacks, and websites of financial institutions have become hackers’ first choice. The number of compromised government…

ID Theft Tops List of Consumers Complaints

A list of top consumer complaints in 2010 has revealed that identity theft continues to be the No. 1 complaints category for the 11th consecutive year.

According to the Federal Trade Commission, of 1,339,265 complaints received last year, 250,854 – or 19 percent – were related to identity theft.

Debt collection complaints came in second place, with 144,159…

Russian Payment Processor Hit with DNS Hijacking

Cyber criminals are now using domain name system hijackings to steal critical personal information, such as credit card numbers, according to a new report by an Internet service provider.

Internet Identity’s eCrime Trends Report revealed evidence that cyber crooks hijacked ChronoPay.com, Russia’s largest payment processor Dec. …

Hackers Halt Carbon-credit Trading

After hackers breached national trading registries and stole and sold millions of euros worth of polluting rights, the European Union extended a freeze yesterday on trading in carbon credits, AFP reported.

“Security comes before trading,” Maria Kokkonen, spokeswoman for European Union climate action commissioner Connie Hedegaard, told AFP.

Less than half of the 27 EU states are deemed by the commission to have adopted sufficient…