Xbox Live enthusiasts are the target of a new email scam which was specifically designed for the gamers. The email is designed to mimic a Xbox Support email and it arrives with the subject line : “Changes to your Xbox Live Account.”

Michael Dolan, a 23 year-old has pleaded guilty on federal charges related to his participation in an elaborate internet “phishing” scheme that targeted and victimized America Online subscribers.

The cyber crook admitted stealing credit card numbers, social security numbers and other personal data from AOL member she met in chat rooms.

Monster.com postponed  five days the public disclosure of a security infringement that resulted in the theft of private information from some 1.3 million job candidates, a company executive has said.

US Job Website Monster.com has fallen victim to a web application attack.The results are worrying, with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of members stolen, reports a security firm.

The attack was carried out by a scripted exploit using stolen login credentials. The employer’s section of the website allowed the attackers to collect a huge amount of usernames, email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers. The usual stuff submitted by resume to a job website.

The Trend Micro SecureCloud platform is a complete Software as a Service (SaaS) security platform providing industry leading threat protection solutions for small, medium , and enterprise businesses against email and Web threats.

I assume it’s horrible to open up your personal documents file on your computer and finding a ransom note warning you that all of your private files will be deleted unless you pay a ransom to the cyber criminals. Well, that's exactly what happened over the past several days to more than a thousand victims, many of them employees at U.S.-based companies and government contractors.

A new survey by Webroot Software, a provider of security software, highlights the most common forms of malicious security threats in the UK. During the month of June, one of the most widespread spyware infections in the UK was CoolWebSearch. 

Having already gotten access to hundreds of MySpace accounts trough phishing, hackers have been using compromised MySpace.com accounts to attack innocent Web surfers, security experts said.

Yahoo Messenger was again the carrier of a phishing scam on Friday jun
29. This new wave of phishing directed the users to a hijacked website
asking them to enter their Yahoo username and password. Worse yet, the
infected YM message forwards itself to the victim's YM contacts.

 A new, stealthier version of a previously known Russian Trojan named Gozi has been released on the Internet since April 17 and has already stolen identity data from more than 2,000 home users worldwide.
The compromised data includes bank and credit card account numbers (including card verification value codes – CVV2 Data), Social Security numbers and online payment account numbers as well as usernames and passwords. As with its precursor, the new version of Gozi is designed to steal information from encrypted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) streams and send the stolen information to a server in Russia.