Week in review 15 August 2014

Week in review 15 August 2014 This week CSO covered the risk of Spear Phishing attacks and some ways to defend against such attacks. A large data breach affecting a food company was uncovered in the US; it looks like it may have been caused by Point of Sale software infected with malware. Google announced…

Week in review 8 August 2014

Week in review 8 August 2014 This week we saw parcel phishing emails, a new disturbingly stealthy form of malware, and a Trojan that appears to have been undetected since 2012. Android users have been affected by a Remote Access Technology (RAT) exploit, and there is yet another Facebook phishing campaign underway. Getting a parcel…

Week in review 28 July 2014

Week in review 28 July 2014 This week we learned of the dangers of going on holiday from Kaspersky Labs; specifically, email attachments that appear to be from booking agents actually contain a trojan that can disable your firewall services. Help Net security published a post talking about the psychology of phishing. One of the…