Zeljka Zorz
TalkTalk hack: Teenager arrested in Northern Ireland
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the investigation into alleged data theft from the TalkTalk website.“On Monday, 26 October, at …
SHA-2 encryption will make many sites inaccessible to users who can’t afford newer tech
A group of security researchers has recently announced that it’s highly likely that effective collision attacks that would break SHA-1 encryption will be revealed by the …
TalkTalk breach: Attackers demand £80,000 for stolen data
UK Telecom TalkTalk revealed on Friday that its website has suffered an attack, that it has been taken down as a precaution, and that names, addresses, dates of birth, email …
CCTV botnets proliferate due to unchanged default factory credentials
Incapsula researchers have uncovered a botnet consisting of some 9,000 CCTV cameras located around the world, which was being used to target, among others, one of the …
Data of 4 million TalkTalk customers likely stolen in wake of website attack
TalkTalk, one of UK’s biggest telecoms, has suffered a “significant and sustained cyberattack” on their website, and it’s possible that personal and …
Microsoft wants researchers to find bugs in .NET Core and ASP.NET, will pay
Microsoft has launched another specialized bug bounty that’s set to run until January 20th, 2016.Bug hunters, who can earn between $500 and $15,000 depending on the …
New ransomware delivered via Windows Remote Desktop Services
A new type of ransomware – dubbed LowLevel04 – is hitting users in Greece and Bulgaria. It is apparently delivered on the affected computers manually by the …
Apple pushes out critical security updates for OS X, iOS, watchOS, and other products
Apple has released security updates to fix critical vulnerabilities in the following Apple products: OS X El Capitan, Mavericks and Yosemite, OS X Server, Safari, watchOS, …
WikiLeaks publishes documents stolen from CIA director’s email account
CIA Director John Brennan’s private AOL email account has been hacked, apparently by teenage hackers with good social engineering skills.While it seems that the account …
Fitbit trackers can easily be infected with malware, and spread it on
Security researcher Axelle Apvrille has managed to deliver malware to a FitBit Flex fitness tracker, and to spread the infection to any computer that the device is …
Tech support scammers start targeting users of Apple devices
With the rise of popularity and the widespread ubiquity of devices made by Apple, it was only a matter of time when tech support scammers would begin targeting that ever …
IS hackers are attacking the US energy grid
The US energy grid is under cyber attack from Islamic State hackers but fortunately, these attacks end up in failure because the hackers are simply not skilled enough to do …