Intransigent sort-of hacker collective Lizard Squad is back. Apparently. Last week, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) announced the arrest of six youngsters, aged 15 to 18, for alleged DDoS cybercrimes. DDoS is short for Distributed Denial of Service, and it’s a type of cyberattack in which a crook gets anywhere from hundreds to hundreds...

Amongst the hyperbole and horror of the Ashley Madison hack there is a bit of good news. OK, perhaps not exactly good news, but some more bad news that might have happened and didn’t. There isn’t a trove of millions of cracked Ashley Madison passwords. If a username and password can be stolen from one...

The FBI is warning businesses to be on the lookout for emails sent by scammers to trick them into transferring money to fraudulent accounts. Email scams have been around for decades, but old-school Advance Fee Fraud scams these are not. The FBI calls this family of scams “Business Email Compromise” (BEC) scams, because they use phony emails that...

Adobe’s Flash will face a double setback tomorrow, 1 September 2015. Amazon’s outright ban on Flash ads kicks in. And Google’s Chrome browser will start blocking Flash, too. Well, sort of. Like Amazon, Google’s anti-Flash stance is neither altruistic nor security-focused. Ironically, it’s aimed at making your ad experience better for advertisers, amongst other things,...

Nigerian scammers are using more sophisticated techniques to scam businesses especially those in Asia. The scammers are now trying to inject themselves in between transactions in the hope of diverting funds into their accounts. Typically, the Microsoft Word Intruder exploit kit to create infected word documents which are then emailed to specific targets. Once opened the...