Zeljka Zorz
NSA allegedly puts backdoors on American-made network devices
Glenn Greenwald’s new book titled No Place to Hide is out today. Aside from telling the story of how he worked with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and journalist Laura …
“Your Photos Are being Used” phishing scam targeting Facebook users
Another day, another Facebook phishing scam. This one comes in the form of a warning sent by a friend: “OMG YOUR PHOTOS ARE BEING USED ON THIS SITE.” The victim, …
Researchers find, analyze forged SSL certs in the wild
A group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook has managed to get a concrete sense of just how prevalent SSL man-in-the-middle attacks using forged SSL …
Why Google prefers numeric CAPTCHAs
Alphanumeric CAPTCHAs – those more or less difficult-to-read combinations that are used by many online services to discern whether a user is human or a bot – have …
Rolling Stones, One Direction fans scammed with fake free ticket offers
Rolling Stones and One Direction fans are being actively targeted by unscrupulous scammers, who encourage them to share a bogus offer of a free ticket to one of the …
Bitly breach details revealed
Bitly has released more details about the breach that made them reset user account credentials and disconnect all users’ Facebook and Twitter accounts late last week: …
A month after Heartbleed, many servers are still vulnerable
A month has passed since the existence of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug has been shared with the public. Given that this open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols …
Twitter makes password reset easier, account hijacking harder
Twitter has announced two changes aimed at helping protect user accounts and restore access to them. The company said that they are aware that many people reuse the same …
Bitly resets compromised credentials
URL shortening service Bitly has suffered a breach of yet undefined proportions, and it seems that Bitly account credentials have been compromised. Even though there is no …
US tech giants urge FCC to protect net neutrality
As the moment when the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) will decide the future of net neutrality draws near, over 100 Internet companies have sent an open letter to the …
Small businesses targeted with email-borne exploits
Even though the data gathered by Microsoft points to the fact that cybercriminals now prefer deceptive tactics to exploits, it does not mean that the latter approach has been …
Orange hacked again, 1.3M users affected
French telecom provider Orange has suffered a second data breach in less that four months, and this time the intruders made off with personal information of some 1.3 million …
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