Fake Promotional Offers Targeting UEFA Champions League 2013

The 58th season of the UEFA Champions League is coming to an end with the final being played on May 25 at Wembley Stadium in London. Nowadays, cybercriminals are gaining a lot of interest in football, at least inasmuch as how to exploit interest in foo…

Cybercriminals Celebrate – It’s Mothers Day!!

Like all doting daughters, I adore my mother. However, I have to confess – I haven’t yet purchased her well-deserved Mother’s Day gift. But I am not short of gift suggestions, no way. In fact, I have an inbox full of emails offering me fabulous gift options from knives to nighties. So all is well, Read more…

Escrow Scams Searching New Avenues

Contributor:  Binny Kuriakose
People dream big when buying expensive items like a car or a property. When those dreams are seen with very affordable price tags it certainly attracts everybody’s interest. There are lots of websites available …

Follow avast! on Instagram and meet our teddy bear

The AVAST Software social media team love challenges;  it stimulates our creativity.  Despite the fact that there is hardly any way to photograph antivirus software, we decided to establish an official AVAST channel at Instagram.  “A picture is worth a thousand words”!  We fell for this inspiring and creative social network, so please check us […]

NCCDC 2013 – Red Team Recap

          This past April (4/19 to 4/21) I had the great pleasure and experience of joining the Red Team at 9th NCCDC competition.   It was actually my 2nd year on the Red Team and 4th year to attend in total (I judged in 2010 and 2011).  McAfee is actually a perpetual Read more…

How Secure Are Your Social Accounts?

To celebrate Password Day, I wanted to share some new research that takes a look at how secure social media accounts are. As you may have read in my blog from yesterday, the Associated Press was recently the target of a Twitter account hack. The account was recovered, but not before hackers managed to send Read more…

OpUSA begins today, is your organization ready?

Following on from recent concerted campaigns by Anonymous against Israel on April 7 and Facebook on April 5, the latest target for the online hacktivist collective is the USA and American online interests. Today, hackers and script kiddies of various a…

Yes, There are “Mother’s Day” Scams

With Mother’s Day just around the corner, cybercriminals are working up ways to take advantage of this time when you’re online looking to buy flowers, candies, perfumes, jewelry or whatever gifts for mom might be hot this year. Phishers follow a similar editorial calendar as newspaper and magazine editors, coordinating their attacks around holidays and Read more…