February 15, 2012
In internet, the online business may affect by two types of attacks. One is direct attack to your Organization and another type is Mass shotgun style of attacks that are designed to infect any users. In these direct attack is the most dangerous method to attack your businesses. It uses advanced technique includes zero-day exploit or a new piece of malware to gain permission through a backdoor onto the user’s machine.
M86 Security has listed five safety measures against the internet scams.
1. Reanalyze your current security
To protect your businesses against scams, re-examine the security products used in your business. Ask your present vendors hard questions about accurately how they identify and block these threats. The best method must have a solid base of reactive controls in antivirus and URL scanning with proactive technologies such as real-time code analysis. Test the products and make sure that the vendors are investing in threat examine.
2. Stay up to date
Scammers commonly target the old version web browsers or applications. So keep web browsers, add-ons/extensions and desktop applications as updated versions.
3. Educate users about security awareness
Internet usage is the main part of a security. So give the knowledge about the internet security. Give examples of social networking scams and tell how easily the computer get affected and force them to maintain applications up to date. Alert everyone from clicking on any email links.
4. Utilize browser add-ons or extensions for an extra layer of security
Use the NoScript extension for Mozilla Firefox to limit the execution of JavaScript code.
Use Mozilla Firefox NoScript Extension to limit the execution of JavaScript code. There are many free tools such as M86 SecureBrowsing to analyze links in the Search engine results and web pages for any malicious code. It also analyzes shortened URL’s in Twitter.
5. Secure your Social Networking site accounts.
Set the Privacy settings in your social networking site accounts. Configure privacy settings corrected, because incorrect configuration may lead the scammers to access your accounts easily.
February 6, 2012
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) ranks the top 10 scams in 2011. In that top 10 scams, first one is common, email scam that can steal password and other personal information and the nine other scams are,
- Job scam: This type of scam is mainly target to the unemployed persons who seeking for job. Many e-mails, websites and online forms are actually phishing scam that steal your identity and many will ask you to fill out credit-card information.
- Sweepstakes and lottery scam: It will send you a mail to claim a won amount or a big prize, but in order to do this you should pay a small amount of money. Recently this type of scam like this “Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promising a $1 million prize”.
- Social media/online-dating scam: This will mainly focus on your social media sites that will search your personal data. It will send you a message on social network like your friend sending. If you open means it leads to download a worm that logs into your social media account and search your personal information.
- Home-improvement scam: It will knock on your door and provide a deal on services. They will identify a serious problem and say they can repair it for lower cost. The BBB told that this is the most evil of these scammers show up after a natural disaster
- Check-cashing scam: A purchaser gives you a check for extra than they buy and asks you to deposit it into your bank account and then send them the difference via Western Union. After several days, the bank links you to tell you the check is no good.
- Phishing scam: This scam is mainly designed to steal your personal information. It will send you a mail to claim your money. The e-mail claims a transaction and asks you to click on a link.
- Identity-theft scam: Some hotels are warning about a scam in which guest may get a call in middle of night from the desk clerk to verify your credit card. Beware, it isn’t from desk clerk.
- Financial scam: Some companies offer help with mortgages or balance due relief with names and sites similar to valid ones. To enter this they will ask for front fees.
- Sales scam: This type of scam is come as “Internet auction” that will tell to customers to bid a following items with $1. If you enter this you will lose your money.
December 31, 2011
A recent judgment against Sanford “Spamford” Wallace has costed him $4,089,500. The order bars them from downloading spyware onto consumers computers. They have been downloading software without customers consent and redirecting them to sites other than those the consumers selected.
A settlement with defendants OptinTrade and Jared Lansky, bars the same practices that are barred in the Wallace and Smart bot.Net judgment. Lansky, an ad broker who disseminated ads containing Wallace’s spyware, will give up $227,000 in ill-gotten gains.
Both these operations were sued by the FTC and violated federal law against them. Though both the companies used different techniques, they were sued for directing consumers to their website, implementing downloads, and for secretly changing their settings.
This spyware caused the CD drives to open and issued a warning on the screens with a message saying, “if your CD-drive opens automatically, you will need to take care of your system immediately! Spyware programmers can control your computer hardware if you failed to protect your computer right at this moment! Download Spy Wiper NOW!” Spy Wiper and Spy Deleter, purported anti-spyware products the defendants promoted, sold for $30.
In October 2004, the FTC filed a lawsuit against Wallace and his Smart Bot company. In 2005, the agency came to an agreement with Wallace that prevented him from distributing software until the case was settled.
November 24, 2011
Steve Jobs Charitable Foundation is the latest fake foundation created by spammers to prey on people’s sympathies and this email written in poor English asks for donation to help young web coders. There is no such charity foundation anywhere in the world.
A few scams received for the past 2 – 3 weeks after the death of Steve Jobs included an advertisement about offering free ipads in memory of Steve Jobs. Once you click on the provided link, you will have to fill the online survey to qualify for receiving the free ipad. The ultimate objective of this scam is to drive traffic to their website.
Luis Corrons, the technical director of Panda Labs told that as soon as we heard the death of Steve Jobs, we knew that spammers would start exploiting this and spread their creations to affect the maximum number of victims within a short time.
These scams work by allowing users to enter in websites where they are told that they had won an exciting price such as an iPad or Iphone. The victim may never receive the prize but he may only receive a series of spam messages. A few other malicious websites leverage Geo-location and displays messages in different languages.
June 21, 2011
An Old Mill Road tenant reported that somebody had fraudulently used his American Express credit card account past week. Previous this year, two other Franklin Lakes people were victims of credit card fraud as well. Here there are five things you must know to guard physically from credit fraud:
1. Thieves can take your debit details at the ATM card. In a observe known as skimming, criminals can set a card-reading machine above the slot of the ATM and trace your pin number. The card readers can also be used by lying workers at or else rightful businesses, so it’s forever a good idea to observe for something remarkable.
2. An African prince does not require your help. Emails from strangers asking you to facilitate them get well money or claiming that you won a lottery are constantly a scam. Still if they throw you money first, it is from an additional stolen account. As shortly as the extra victim realizes their account has been breached and description it to the bank, the money will be taken rear from you, more often than not after you previously approved your possess money and bank account information along to the scammer.
3. Don’t make purchases over the phone except you make the call. If a telemarketer calls and offers a little you could like to buy, get the amount where you can call back and make sure online to see if the amount is rightful. If you think it’s a scam, information the call to the FTC.
4. The FBI keeps follow of new scams. You can verify their website to ensure out the behavior that criminals are demanding to trick you. They also have a group of huge information on how to guard you from thieves.
5. Keep your details protected. Destroy any ID with your credit card or social security number on them and at all times make sure your computer is virus-free. Hackers can simply get credit card details from a computer that isn’t protected.
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