Today, a few media outlets picked up on a new malicious spam campaign that masquerades as a missed WhatsApp message to deliver malware. However, this isn't the first time cyber criminals have tried this trick. Watch today's episode to learn how to identify this malicious email and avoid it. (Episode Runtime: 2:56) Direct YouTube … [Read more...]
Gazon Android Worm – Daily Security Byte EP.37
Are you an Android user? If so you'll probably want to know about the new worm that spreads via texts, and has infected over 4000 US users. Press play to learn more. (Episode Runtime: 1:43) Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV-E7EojS3M EPISODE REFERENCES: Gazon: Android malware SMSs Amazon card scam - AdaptiveMobile — Corey Nachreiner, CISSP (@SecAdept) … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 61 – InfoSec UK 2013
AP Twitter Hack, Serial Offenders, and InfoSec UK This week's security highlights video comes a bit early due to my travels in London to attend InfoSec UK. If you're looking for a quick summary of the week's top security news, this is the vlog for you. In today's video, I share a few themes from the biggest security conferences in Europe, news of the AP twitter feed hijack, … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 60 – Oracle CPU
Router Hacks, WordPress Attack, and Huge Oracle Update During a week of such tragedy, it's hard to give much thought to network and information security (InfoSec). Yet, we must stay vigilant, lest abhorrent cyber criminals leverage such tragedies against us in social networking campaigns. In this week's InfoSec news summary, I cover Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update … [Read more...]
Scummy attackers preying on Japanese disaster for a buck
Unfortunately, it almost goes without saying in this day and age; when some big event or unfortunate disaster happens, scummy malware pushers will jump all over it in hopes of enticing the news hungry masses to malicious sites and downloads. This unfortunate trend hasn't failed to disgust me yet again with Japan's recent earthquake and nuclear catastrophes. Within hours of the … [Read more...]
