Last year the FBI busted an Estonian crime gang that had been hijacking computers and rerouting them to bogus websites. By infecting as many as half-a-million computers with the DNSChanger trojan, the crooks were able to reap advertising revenue. The FBI's last step in cleaning up after the group's...
In technology years, email is a really old technology. One drawback to the way email works is that it wasn't designed to filter out spam and fishing emails. There's just no inherent way to prove that the sender of email is really who they say they are. There have been systems put in place on top of...
UK-based Sophos, an IT security company, notes on its blog a couple of recent scams making their way around Facebook. Don't fall for a current Facebook trend that promises to give you a custom pink or red facebook profile page. It's a scam! However, if you see your friends' profile pictures...
It’s something we at Invision seem to have turned into a theme within our communication to you over the years: Take care of your data! Beware for your privacy! But it’s still to easy to consider such threats few and far between. That is, until you read the results of various searches in the...
Although the magnitude of malware in the mobile operating system market is much smaller than that in the desktop PC market, it’s a good idea for mobile device users to develop good habits that will help them avoid bad apps and malware. Here, well-known anti-malware software company, McAfee,...
Most business leaders already know that they need some sort of antivirus software installed and running on business computers. This is often also only one piece of software on their list of digital tools, as many business run communication tools, web hosting tools and much more on their business...
