The Importance of Strong Passwords on Social Media
Last Tuesday, April 23, the Twitter account of the Associated Press news agency was hacked and sent out a hoax tweet reporting that President Barack Obama had been injured by an explosion in the White House. Within seconds, Wall Street was in panic mode and US stock plunged. Situations like this illustrate once again the [...]
Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft… who is left?
If we had to elaborate a list with the top tech companies who have being hacked in the last weeks, we should include all the ones in the title of this blog post, and maybe a few more cases we are still not aware of. The first one was Twitter. On February 1st Twitter published [...]
Police Virus Infections On The Rise
Last week I congratulated Spanish National Police for the fantastic job done that took down a cybercrime gang that was using the known “police virus”, but I already pointed out that this was not going to be the end of this threat, as most likely there were a number of different gangs using the same [...]
Operation Ransom: Police Virus authors arrested
Today, we have some important news to share with you. Our friends in the Technological Investigation Brigade of Spain’s National Police, together with Europol and Interpol, have dismantled the cyber-crime ring responsible for the “Police Virus”. According to the news release published by Spain’s Ministry of Home Affairs, the police have arrested ten members of [...]
Saint Valentine: tips to avoid falling victim to computer threats
I do not want to bore you to death, just a few tips on the topic - Do not run attached files that come from unknown sources. Stay on alert for files that claim to be Valentine Day’s greeting cards, romantic videos, etc. - Do not open emails or messages received on social networks from [...]
PandaLabs Annual Report – 2012
Today we are publishing the latest PandaLabs Annual Report, covering the major security news happened during 2012, from mobile malware to cyber-war, covering all major events in different areas such as social netwoks. We cover also the security trends for 2013, as well as some of the main figures related to malware: [...]
Facebook spam leads to Exploit Kit
To no wonders, the Blackhole Exploit Kit is still trying to infect users. One of the techniques commonly used is to send the victim an email from for example Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, …. Asking to click on a link. We’ll take a small peek at those tactics. We received the following email: Hi , You [...]
All that glitters is not gold
As the old saying goes, “All that glitters is not gold”. We live in a time of information abundance, overloaded with eye-catching news stories and links received via Twitter, Facebook, email, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and any other social networking site you may be on. The problem is that very often that information is nothing more than [...]
