‘Obama Survey’ Offers $500 Gas Gift Cards

As the U.S. Presidential elections nears, online scammers are also quick to take advantage of the popularity of the presidential candidates. Trend Micro Content Security team’s spam filters recently caught the following email message, which asks recipients to participate in a survey for the Democratic Party nominee in return for $500 worth of gas [...]

McAfee buys CipherTr– err, Secure Computing

Like every other red-blooded American I take a quick peak at my collapsing retirement and savings portfolios in the morning just to give me that extra kick to head into the office. So I pull up Google Finance to see Secure Computing (SCUR) is, up some 23%, one of the big movers for the [...]

Webmail providers can fix Palin hack-style problems

One of the most important questions we should be asking ourselves in light of the Palin webmail hack discussed at length here, here and here is how it could have been prevented. There are several software techniques that I can think of off the top of my head that would help webmail prevent malicious [...]

‘Incinerated Cash’ Serves As Effective Malware Bait

A million dollars, even when it’s already burnt to a crisp, proves to be irresistible to some people. Trend Micro has been seeing a large number of users affected by malware distributed through a spammed message that yarns a story of bank robbery video footage, wherein a million dollars supposedly got incinerated. The news is, [...]