Here's everything I've done tagged with cyber criminals
Do you use Yahoo Voice? If so, you’ll be happy to know that your login info – both email and password – could have been one of the 450,000 accounts that got hacked and posted online this morning. Yahoooooo!….. No, that’s not a good thing. It’s time to change your password.
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It’s been no secret that Android has been a lucrative playground for all sorts of malware. Q1 this year saw 5,000 malicious apps target Google’s mobile OS, jumping to 20,000 for Q2. Estimates for the Year End total? 130,000. The Mayans said 2012 would be the end of the world—could this be the cause?
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Cyber criminals strike where it’s hot, and right now there’s nothing hotter than Instagram. The free photo-filtering & sharing app that over 30 million iOS users know and love has now found fame with Android users. It’s also found malware.
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Google has always cared about the security of your web browsing in Chrome. They’ve even dared the public to try and crack their browser in a contest. After years of unsuccessful attempts hackers got in. Chrome got pwned* — for the first time! Twice.
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In one of the biggest news stories in recent years, Facebook announced its initial public offering last week. While the news has everyone buzzing about how much profit they can make buying Facebook stock, there’s one group who will cash in without even buying any—scammers.
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Today is all about embracing out with the old and in with the new—passwords that is. Tech blog Gizmodo has dedicated February 1 to securing your data and keeping it safe. Now’s your chance to get more secure!
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Yesterday Symantec surprised many of us with an announcement to disable its’ pcAnywhere software. It seems the irrelevant source code that was stolen in 2006 wasn’t so irrelevant to hackers. Now the anti-virus software you use to protect yourself from threats is what hackers are using to attack you.
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If you’ve ever shopped online on Zappos.com then you’ve probably seen an email in your inbox asking to create a new password. The email is the real deal, letting you that your data might have already been stolen. Zappos.com got hacked.
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