Recently I had an email of Facebook thanking me for the purchase of thousands of poker chips. I don’t play poker on Facebook. Unsurprisingly then, next time I tried to
When you consider the terrible aesthetic impact of physical terrorism it’s hard to take cyber terrorism seriously. It’s a phrase that makes you think of a few fat teenagers from
Heads up Google lovers; a rogue Android app has been tweaked by hackers in order to hijack your smartphone and run up a huge texting bill. Vikram Thakur, security response
Back in the day, when I previously used the Norton Anti-Virus suite for my home computer, it gave me the hump. There were a few reasons I got narked with it, the main one being that the hit on system performance was pretty high for an AV suite, and for a chap who liked to play the odd online FPS, it was a bit of a pain. Secondly, once you installed it, it was installed. Every facet of your computers being was wormed into and monitored by Norton, and it felt stifling, and ominous. And if you wanted to get rid of it, you would have been lucky to remove all of its various components and registry entries without a team of Microsoft computer scientists, and a man with a hammer in reserve.
Symantec are due to release a report today on the Internet Underground Economy which includes claims that a keystroke logger can be purchased at a measly £15 ($23USD), a phishing
