Tag: malware

Hard Rock Las Vegas Credit Card Data Scraped
The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas discovered a major breach of their credit card processing data with card scraping malware placed on its payment-card system. Cardholders w...
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Google Ads Get New Botnet Protection Feature
Google announced a new feature for its ads that automates the filtering of traffic from three ad fraud botnets along with the ones Google is already monitoring and defending agains...
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Digital Ad Industry Would Gain $8.2 Billion A Year By Fixing These Things
The digital ad industry stands to gain $8.2 billion a year by eliminating fraud and issues with the Internet supply chain, a new study from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)...
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Home Depot Data Breach Affected 56 Million Cards
The world's biggest home improvement store has just given us the specifics on the lengt...
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Antivirus Software: No Match For Potential Cybercrime
“There are only two kinds of companies: those who have been breached and those who will be breached.” Such is the...
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Bots Now Outnumber Humans On The Web
The Internet is the greatest communication tool that mankind has ever invented. As of June 30, 2012, there were almost 2.5 billion humans connected to the Internet. That number has...
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Microsoft Extends Anti-Virus Support For Windows XP
Windows XP's long overdue death is quickly approaching. After extending support numerous times, Microsoft is finally going to pull the plug on Windows XP on April 8. While Microsof...
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That Yahoo Ad Malware Reportedly Made Bitcoin Slaves Out Of Infected Machines
Yahoo recently confirmed that it was running ads that were spreading malware on some of its sites. Now we learn that said malware was apparently turning infected machines into Bitc...
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Yahoo Ads Spread Malware To Users, Company Confirms
Yahoo confirmed that it was running advertisements that were spreading malware on some of its sites. While this is apparently in the past now, the company acknowledged and confirme...
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Facebook Hoax Alert: Apparently, People Are Still Falling for the ‘See Who Viewed Your Profile’ Scam
Guys, we need to talk. It appears that people still think that there's some way to see who has viewed their Facebook profiles. Scammers keep designing bogus apps to capitalize o...
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Lily Collins Named “Most Dangerous” Cyber Celebrity
Lily Collins, daughter of 80's pop-rock artist Phil Collins and star of "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones", found herself at the top of a list no celebrity would seemingly wan...
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Google Integrates Its App Verification Tool Directly Into Google Play
Malware is a serious concern for mobile devices. Android devices are espe...
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Malware Fools Man into Turning Himself in for Child Porn
A Virginia man has been arrested and held without bond after he turned himself in to police for viewing child porn. The story is a bit more complicated than it sounds, mainly d...
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McAfee’s Most Toxic Superheroes In Relation To Web Surfing
Do you ever wonder what superhero has the most threatening websites related to a search conducted for their particular name? No, me neither,...
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