by Schehrezade Davidson | Feb 27, 2012 | Phishing, Trends, Usability, Vulnerabilities
Huffington Post brings us a video that comes as no surprise. The most used password is PASSWORD1, followed by Welcome. That’s right, folks. If you only try those 2 passwords you’ll be able to hack into 6% of user accounts out there – and that...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Dec 9, 2011 | Phishing, Trends, Vulnerabilities
These days it seems that while hackers evolve with trends in technology, the general computer user is no more identity savvy than he was before Facebook made identities a virtual open book. Data breaches, hacks, and attempted hacks are in the news regularly, and yet...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Mar 17, 2010 | Cyberthieves, Phishing, Trends
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently released their report on 2009 Internet crime statistics. As you can probably guess, there were more complaints, more losses, higher average loss per incident. IC3 is a federally funded non-profit, a joint operation...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Feb 9, 2010 | Cyberthieves, Phishing, Trends
A world wide phishing attack on carbon emissions trading registries forced registries in nine countries to shut down, while in other countries trading was temporarily suspended. Fake registries (phishing sites) were set up by a group of criminals who then sent out...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Jan 22, 2010 | Banking, Phishing, Trends, Usability
Two studies show that young people are more likely to be victims of online fraud. You’d think that since most of them have not experienced a world without Internet and email, they’d be more knowledgeable about phishing and other schemes. But the insurance group CPP...
