Zeljka Zorz
Deadly new ransomware soon to be released?
As disruptive as Cryptolocker is, there’s a possibility that an even deadlier type of ransomware will soon be targeting unsuspecting users. White-hat security research …
Multi-protocol SoftEther VPN becomes open source
In March 2013, a Japanese student by the name of Daiyuu Nobori set up VPN Gate, a free VPN service that he hoped would be used by Internet users who wish to avoid their …
“Unauthorized activity on your Amazon account” phishing email doing rounds
The pre-holiday online shopping frenzy has ended, but scam and phishing attempts continue unabated. The latest email spam campaign aiming for login credentials is one that …
How to make malware warnings more effective?
An effective security warning is concrete and clear, appeals to authority, and doesn’t pop up too often, say the results of a study into the psychology of malware …
WoW gamers targeted with trojanized Curse client
The DDoS attacks that temporarily took down Blizzard’s Battle.net and Valve’s Steam online gaming services over the end of the year holidays have undoubtedly …
Yahoo visitors got served with malicious ads
Visitors to the main Yahoo domain have been targeted with malicious ads that redirected them to an exploit kit serving different types of malware, the Dutch security audit …
Snapchat makes no apology for breach, announces app update
One good thing to come from the leak of usernames and phone numbers of some 4.6 million Snapchat users is that the company is now forced to patch the exploited …
OpenSSL site hack wasn’t the result of vulnerability exploitation
After a few days of speculations fuelled by a not clear enough explanation, the OpenSSL Foundation has confirmed that the late December defacement of its Openssl.org website …
Critical backdoor in Linksys and Netgear routers found
A backdoor in some Linksys and Netgear wireless routers that allows malicious users to reset the devices’ configuration to factory settings and, therefore, to default …
Researchers demonstrate SD memory card hacking
Security researchers Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Sean “xobs” Cross have demonstrated that the only way to be absolutely sure that no one will be able to …
4.6M Snapchat users’ info compromised in breach
It took just a week for someone to take advantage of the full disclosure of several (at the time) unpatched Snapchat vulnerabilities, and the result is a published list of 4.6 …
BitTorrent introduces secure, serverless messaging system
Back in September, the company behind the BitTorrent P2P protocol and the BitTorrent and μTorrent file-sharing software announced that they have started working on …
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