Zeljka Zorz
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 …
Malicious Google Chrome clone eFast serves ads, collects info
A Google Chrome lookalike browser dubbed eFast is being actively pushed onto users. The software is at best annoying and unwanted, and at worst can lead users to …
Oracle releases 154 fixes, plugs click-to-play bypass Java flaw used in attacks
Oracle has released its quarterly patch update that contains 154 security fixes for its various products.What will interest end users the most are the fixes released for Java, …
Western Digital self-encrypting hard drives are completely insecure
A team of researchers has decided to check whether the encryption offered by Western Digital’s My Passport external self-encrypting hard drives is effective and …
Criminals hacked chip-and-PIN system by perfecting researchers’ PoC attack
When in 2010 a team of computer scientists at Cambridge University demonstrated how the chip and PIN system used on many modern payment cards can be bypassed by making the POS …
Private email account of CIA Director compromised by teenage hackers?
CIA Director John Brennan apparently got his private AOL email account hacked, and the attackers revealed that it contained information that shouldn’t have been there: …
250+ iOS apps offered on Apple’s App Store found slurping user data
The latest instance of potentially malicious apps tricking Apple App Store’s vetting process comes courtesy of Youmi, a China-based mobile advertising provider whose …
A slew of LTE 4G vulnerabilities endanger Android users and mobile carriers
As an ever increasing number of mobile carriers around the world switches to from using GSM/UMTS networks to Long-Term Evolution (LTE 4G) ones, both carriers and users are …
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