Zeljka Zorz
Pinterest joins Twitter in supporting Do No Track
Pinterest, the popular pinboard-style photo-sharing website, has announced a couple of big changes, and among them is the Do Not Track (DNT) feature. “We want you to …
The future of phishing: Credit card redirection
Cyber crooks will go at great lengths to get their hand on users’ credit and debit card information. Usually they try to trick them with spoofed emails that lead to …
Stanford University suffers another data breach
Stanford University has suffered another IT breach, and while its scope is yet to be determined, all users of the university’s computer system are advised to change the …
US SEC data leak shows lax data access practices
When a former employee of the US Securities and Exchange Commission left the organization for a job with another federal agency, he “inadvertently and unknowingly” …
Feds to web firms: Hand over encryption keys and user passwords
The US government and its intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have apparently been trying to get Internet firms to hand over both their users’ account passwords …
TOR-based botnets on the rise
Keeping their botnet’s C&C centers online is crucial for bot herders, so that they can keep taking advantage of the computers they zombified. But given that cyber …
US lawmakers shoot down legislation for limiting NSA spying
An amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2014 that would curtail funding for NSA’s collection of electronic communication data in cases where the …
DHS to set up “cybersecurity shop” for govt agencies
The US Department of Homeland Security has been tasked with setting up a centralized shopping hub to which all the other US federal, state and local agencies us to get the …
Malicious apps exploiting Android “Master Key” bug found
Malicious apps misusing on of the two recently discovered Android “Master Key” bugs to successfully pose as legitimate ones have been discovered on third-party …
Introduction to Cyber-Warfare
If you're looking to learn about cyber warfare, but don't know where to start, you might prefer picking up a book instead of searching for information dispersed on the …
Internet Explorer best at malware and privacy protection
Back in May, NSS Labs shared the results of their testing of how successful popular Web browsers are in detecting malware, showing that the latest versions of Internet …
Snowden free to leave Moscow airport
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who has been stuck in the transit zone of the Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport for the last month, has finally been given …