Scams

Support scammers: old twisters, new twists, and scammer psychology.

Skype users have been advised by Microsoft to change their passwords following reports that 'spoofed' messages are being sent without user permission.

There's a lot more to phone scams than tech support, giving rise to an escalating number of complaints. Here's what two recent reports tell us.

Just six percent of British employees have received training in dealing with phishing attacks, a survey has revealed.

David Harley examines the latest confessions of a support scammer to appear on the web, this time from a Reddit Q&A.

In 2007, David Harley and Andrew Lee suggested at Virus Bulletin that poorly-designed phish quizzes did more harm than good. Has the picture changed much?

Australians were tricked out of around AUS$82 million (US$66 million) during 2014, with online dating scams accounting for the biggest losses.

Google has taken a stand against phishing attacks by revealing Password Alert: a Chrome extension designed to neutralize them after a user is taken in.