Zeljka Zorz
Blizzard suspends mobile app access following account hijacks
A number of World of Warcraft players have been unpleasantly surprised this last week to find that someone has apparently broken into their accounts and bought low-level items …
Lulzsec hacker Davis freed, back on the Internet
Jake Davis (aka Topiary), the former Lulzsec hacker and spokesman, has been released from the Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution, where he spent 37 days following his …
Car hack attack a possible theory behind journalist’s death
The upcoming DEFCON hacking conference will have many presenters touching on a great number of subjects, including that of car hacking. Security researcher Charlie Miller, …
U.S. senators propose new privacy bill following surveillance scandal
A group of U.S. senators lead by Senator and Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy have introduced a new legislation that aims to improve government …
Researchers reveal tricks for Cutwail’s endurance
While some botherders have opted for the arguably much safer P2P architecture in order to assure their botnets’ resilience, others are still clinging to the standard …
Google implements malware scan for submissions to Chrome Web Store
Late last week, Google has announced that submissions to the Chrome Web Store will, from now on, be checked for malware. Mimicking the Android Bouncer program incorporated …
Snowden on the run, leaks continue unabated
The chase is on for whistleblower Edward Snowden and the U.S. government. After legally leaving Hong Kong for Moscow, and despite having his U.S. passport revoked, the former …
Bitcoin Foundation hit with cease and desist order
The Bitcoin Foundation has received a cease and desist letter from the California Department of Financial Institutions, saying that they have been informed that the …
Facebook bug discloses user info, existence of shadow accounts
6 million Facebook users have been affected by a flaw that resulted in the email addresses and phone numbers associated with their accounts being shared with any friend and …
Android fake AV demands ransom, crashes
Fake AV software and ransomware are old news for computer users, but are now poised to become a problem for smartphone users as well. Symantec researchers have recently …
Skype’s Project Chess worked on letting U.S. agencies in
A lot has been said, written and claimed about Skype and the possibility that the U.S. government, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies have been given access to the …
LinkedIn outage was due to DNS records misconfiguration
The mystery of the LinkedIn outage has been revealed: Network Solutions, its DNS provider, has been battered by a DDoS attack and while defending itself, misconfigured the DNS …