Zeljka Zorz
Russian hackers executed the US State Department, White House network breaches
The October 2014 breaches of some of the computer systems of the US State Department and the White House have been executed by Russian hackers, unnamed US officials familiar …
Large malvertising campaign linked to potentially compromised Google ad reseller
Dutch infosec firm Fox IT has spotted a lage scale malvertising campaign that seems to originate from Bulgarian Google ad reseller EngageLab. The first redirection has been …
New Tor version fixes issues that can crash hidden services and clients
Two new versions of the Tor anonymity software have been released on Tuesday, with fixes for two security issues that can be exploited to crash hidden services and clients …
Malware peddlers exploit fear of Android Installer Hijacking bug
The recently disclosed existence of the “Android Installer Hijacking” vulnerability is being exploited by malware and adware peddlers and online survey scammers, …
Firefox loses opportunistic encryption feature due to critical flaw
Less than a week after it made Firefox 37 available for download, Mozilla is pulling one of the security features it implemented. Mozilla is urging users to update again, to …
New crypto-ransomware “quarantines” files, downloads info-stealer
Trend Micro researchers have found and analyzed a new piece of crypto-ransomware: CryptVault encrypts files, makes them look like files quarantined by an AV solution, asks for …
How to keep your Facebook account secure
When last November Facebook asked users to comment the proposed changes to the social network’s terms of use, data policy, and cookies policy, it also introduced Privacy …
Snapchat blocks third-party apps from accessing its APIs
Snapchat has had its fair share of data breaches and security troubles, the latest of which stemmed from the fact that the app’s internal API has been reverse-engineered …
Cyber crooks go after enterprise millions with Dyre malware, social engineering
“An experienced and resource-backed cybercrime gang” is using the relatively new Dyre/Dyreza banking Trojan coupled with effective social engineering to steal …
Mozilla revokes trust for CNNIC certificates
Mozilla has joined Google in revoking trust for certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) Certificate Authority. CNNIC is the administrative …
Google boots unwanted ad injector extensions from Chrome Web Store
Google is done with tolerating sneaky ad injectors and, following the results of a study they recently conducted, they removed from the Chrome Web Store 192 deceptive Chrome …
Google decides to stop trusting CNNIC certificates
In the wake of last week’s incident caused by the issuance of unauthorized digital certificates for a number of Google domains by the hands of MCS Holdings, an …
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