A fake email from the White House is just what the hackers needed to fool an unknown number of U.S. Employees into giving up their sensitive secret documents.

Gmail has been revamping its contact manager and UI, however, in another part of the world, China to be specific, Gmail users are being scammed by hackers into giving away their usernames and passwords.

A new Twitter Phishing email is being sent out to users saying that their accounts will be deleted unless they click on a link. The link in question leads to a scam website and may compromise your accounts.

The Finnish police is investigation into a huge case of theft in the virtual world. The thefts are occurring as a result of phishing scams.

A new phishing attack that invites you to click on a hilarious video is spreading fast,

Twitter will thwart spam in DM by passing links in direct messages through their own servers, namely a URL shorterner twt.tl. This will allow Twitter to stop users from being phished or scammed, before the effect is widespread.

A new bout of Twitter DM Phishing spam is doing the rounds where affected users are sending out DMs to their friends which contain links to spam websites. A sample message of the Twitter DM says “haha, This you????” accompanied by a phishing link.

Phishing attacks are not uncommon and many people are fooled to believe that someone is sending you a genuine email, though Gmail’s spam filters are excellent, there may be times when you want to confirm if a email is genuine and not a phishing attempt.

Google has been displaying a “Warning: Suspected phishing site!” message for websites that use the Google Ad Services code on their website. This happens only when users are using the Google Chrome browser to browse to the site.

There have been quire a lot of issues with Gmail account recently, and we had told you about a hacked Gmail account of our friend, along with steps on safekeeping your Gmail account from attackers. We also had told you about some Online security tips which can keep you safe on the Internet in general. [...]