Tag Archives: Security Awareness

Vawtrack Trojan Capabilities

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Carmelo

Vawtrak is a banking Trojan that has been spreading in recent months. It infects victims via malware downloaders, exploit kits, or through drive-by downloads (e.g. spam email attachments or links). AVG has a white paper (pdf) full of details. Vawtrak … Continue reading →

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Car Updates to Enable Self-Driving

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Carmelo

Rachel Maddow has a video on the self-driving car and how some cars today, already have the basic functionality, and just require the update. What isn’t covered, is how laws and law enforcement will perceive inebriated or sight impaired drivers if … Continue reading →

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Fake Error Message, SSL Cert Invalid

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Carmelo

Bad guys are putting up fake error messages with hopes that victims will call them for help. Don’t fall for it!

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Free Apple Watch, Click Here!

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Carmelo

A scam is being played out right now since Apple has re-introduced the Apple Watch. A group of scammers are creating Facebook events, littered with Apple Watch pictures, where the victim is instructed to invite 100 friends to join the … Continue reading →

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Spear Phishing in Florida Nearly Leads to Half Million Dollar Loss

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Carmelo

Orange Park City Hall nearly lost $500,000 from the city’s bank account at Wells Fargo, according to Security Info Watch. An email with an attachment was sent to an employee. Once the attachment was opened, similar emails were sent to … Continue reading →

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Would You Buy Your Kids A “Hello Barbie” Doll?

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Carmelo

Most kids like to talk to their toys, it’s not uncommon. As far back as I can remember, like many children, I’d play with toys and do voices for them, or ask them questions on behalf of other toys, playing out … Continue reading →

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I Just Want to Be Safe, I’m A ToysЯUs Kid!

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Carmelo

Without getting breached, that they know of, Toys’Я’Us has seen numerous attempts to break into user accounts so they initiated a hard reset of all user accounts with a friendly email for users to create strong passwords. It almost sounds … Continue reading →

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Your Life Online After you Die

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Carmelo
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Identity Theft, of the Children

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Carmelo

Imagine getting credit card bills and hospital bills for your children, yet they are very young and barely in school yet. This is what is happening to children throughout the United States, and will continue to happen by the millions. Since … Continue reading →

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Kapersky Reports Increase in Phishing

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Carmelo

Kaspersky recently reported that 28.8 percent of phishing attacks in 2014 tried to steal financial data from consumers. Information as of late, that has been getting stolen, WILL be used in more phishing attacks in 2015. Here is a snippet from … Continue reading →

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