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Researchers find self-propagating Zeus variant

The Zeus / Zbot Trojan has been around since 2007, and it and its variants continued to perform MitM attacks, log keystrokes and grab information entered in online forms. It …

NSA whistleblower reveals himself, world reacts

This last week has been the most eventful one in infosec history since I can remember. An (at the time unnamed) whistleblower has rocked the world by disclosing documents that …

Potential privacy problems for companies accepting Bitcoins

Businesses accepting Bitcoin payments might want to consider the privacy implications that such an option creates for its customers and for themselves. As you may or may not …

EU to vote on stiffer penalties for hackers

Member states of the European Union might soon be creating new laws that will raise minimum prison sentences for convicted cyber attackers and botnet herders. Last week, the …

Microsoft Citadel takedown ultimately counterproductive

Last week’s disruption of nearly 1500 Citadel botnets believed to be responsible for over half a billion US dollars in financial fraud and affecting more than five …

Proposed bill will deny foreign hackers entry into the U.S.

A day before U.S. President’s scheduled meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a new act that aims to punish criminals engaging in cyber spying and theft on behalf …

New Android Trojan is complex as Windows malware

Mobile (and especially Android) malware is on the rise and according to researchers from Kaspersky Lab, its complexity is also increasing. Case in point: …

Google ups (some) bug bounties

Google has once again decided to raise the sums that researchers can earn by offering information about bugs in the company’s web services and properties (YouTube, …

Pirate Bay founder suspected of hacking police databases

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm, who has been extradited from Cambodia to Sweden to answer for allegedly hacking of Swedish IT company Logica and the Nordea bank …

NSA has direct access to Google, Facebook, Apple servers

After yesterday’s news that Verizon is compelled to share all phone call metadata with the NSA on a daily basis comes the incendiary revelation that the spy agency has …

U.S. Veterans Affairs Dept. repeatedly targeted by foreign hackers

Conflicting claims were heard at Tuesday’s hearing of the House Veterans’ Affairs oversight and investigations subcommittee, leaving open the question on whether …

Smart TVs vulnerable to a host of attacks

Smart (connected) TVs are becoming a common fixture in Western world homes, and most users consider it a handy tool and an improvement over the basic television sets of …

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