Over the years, there have been so many Internet hoaxes that it has made the act of spreading helpful and cautionary advice to fellow users quite difficult. However, when it comes to Twitter direct message “spam”, this is something that can be acted on. Twitter is great for being in the “now”, and keeping up [...]
Late last week we saw evidence of an email phishing scam, pretending to be from Apple, offering discount cards to loyal customers. Seen below, the scam is similar to previous examples we’ve observed to be popping up over the last year or so. [...]
‘Tis the season to be jolly – and as the online retailers are rubbing their hands together so too are an army of cyber criminals and scammers looking to take advantage of the online boom to make a quick buck. Cultural events such as Christmas have long attracted the best and worst of what humanity [...]
500 million e-cards will be sent this Christmas, some of them could contain unwanted ‘presents’. People are turning to e-cards as a low cost and eco-friendly way to deliver the season’s greetings to friends and loved ones. Yet new research by global internet security firm AVG Technologies found that almost three quarters (74 per cent) of [...]
AVG (AU/NZ) has been watching with interest the recent developments related to the so-called Duqu Trojan. Duqu, apparently related to last year’s infamous Stuxnet Trojan, takes advantage of the Zero-Day Vulnerability identified by Microsoft last week in its Win32k TrueType font parsing engine. A successful attacker could run arbitrary code in kernel mode and use [...]
It’s amazing, but I just keep winning online lotteries and sweepstakes from all over the world that I haven’t even entered. Yet even though the prizes I’m supposed to have won in the last year alone would sum to hundreds of millions of dollars, I’m still working and not on a super yacht spending time [...]
In recent days, many people have received direct email messages which look like they’re coming from Twitter, but which are actually carefully disguised phishing scam attacks.
Unfortunately, within hours of the tragic bombing and shooting massacre in Norway, cold hearted scammers were already exploiting the Facebook communities interest in learning more. Online scum bags also were quick to leverage the untimely death of troubled singer Amy Winehouse. Bogus messages were posted on Facebook offering more salacious information about both events. In [...]
Google has recently began issuing warnings to potentially a couple of million Internet users that their computers are infected with a type of malware that hijacks search engine results. Yes, if you see it, the alert is genuine. Sure, we’re used to seeing Google warning us about possible dodgy web pages in search results, but [...]
At AVG we take your protection seriously and that doesn’t stop at our security software, we give you a breakdown of all the news from the world of internet security, viruses and hacking to make sure that you’re as protected as possible from the latest threats and scams. This week we discuss: Hotmail introduces new [...]
